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Latitude: 51.0427 / 51°2'33"N
Longitude: -3.3244 / 3°19'27"W
OS Eastings: 307250
OS Northings: 127871
OS Grid: ST072278
Mapcode National: GBR LQ.GRLR
Mapcode Global: FRA 36XC.BPR
Plus Code: 9C3R2MVG+37
Entry Name: Abbotsfield
Listing Date: 11 July 1975
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1177635
English Heritage Legacy ID: 270202
ID on this website: 101177635
Location: Wiveliscombe, Somerset, TA4
County: Somerset
District: Somerset West and Taunton
Civil Parish: Wiveliscombe
Built-Up Area: Wiveliscombe
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset
Tagged with: English country house
ST02NE WIVELISCOMBE WITHOUT CP
3/120 Abbotsfield
11.7.75
- II
Country House, now flats. Circa 1872. Architect Owen Jones, for Lacey Collard,
piano manufacturer. Squared red sandstone rubble masonry, with white limestone
dressings, quoins, dentil cornice, West Somerset slate roof. Entrance facade: 3
bay single storey block, central porch, gabled Y tracery dormers, 2 storey
gabled bay left with acroteria as finials, and coping stones. 3 and a half
storey pyramid-roof staircase tower to right, 2 and 3 light mullioned and
transomed windows. Ballroom wing with rondel in gable projects forward right, 2
storey L-shaped servants block with stables beyond to left. Garden facade: 4 bay
loggia with balustrade and gabled Y-tracery dormers above, between 2 storey
gabled wings with splayed bay windows at ground floor, conservatory to left.
Remarkably eclectic detailing. Interior not of interest. One of the few
buildings designed by Owen Jones, the influential Victorian design theorist; and
the only one surviving.
Listing NGR: ST0725027871
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