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Categories: North SomersetA large pool, formerly part of a series of pools used by medieval monks developed for the medieval practice of farming for fish. Surrounded by mature woodland containing oak and beech trees. It was landscaped using Pulhamite,
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Early C20 formal garden, parkland and extensive kitchen garden. Estate owned by Hannah More 1784-1828; woodland walks and two urns date from her occupancy. Edwardian gardens laid out for H.H. Wills 1901-11, attributed to Harold Peto; terraces, clipped yew hedges, pavilion, rectangular pond and wooden pergola; parkland 1901-11 with some older trees; kitchen garden 1901-11.
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Categories: North SomersetC20 garden planted with specimen trees and shrubs; terrace behind house 1840; rose garden 1937; pondC20; paddock planted as arboretum in last 25 years. House (LB II) late C18 altered mid C19, originally dower house to Leigh Court (qv); garden walls. EH Detached house now subdivided. Late C18, altered in mid C19. Rendered; plain and double Roman tiled mansard roof with coped raised verges and crested ridge; rendered stacks. 2 storeys and attics in catslide dormers. 3 bays plus 1 on extension to right (no. 34): glazing bar sash windows; 3-light canted bays to ground floor with dentilled cornice; louvred shutters and blind boxes to first floor. Central 6-panel door under blacked fanlight; doorcase with broken pediment. Listing NGR: ST5440973929 House G ll
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Categories: North Somerset1920s garden, rest of estate now farmed, dotted with standards; avenue; partially ruined stone tower three quarters of a mile west of house. House (LB II) 1791 with 1921 additions. EHDetached house. Dated SB/1791 (on stable arch cartouche) with 1921 (on doorcase pediment) additions. Ashlar with roughcast to rear and slate roofs. South-west front of 2 storeys and attics, 6 bays: the last 2 bays to right-hand are additions of 1921, with further 1 storey C20 bow to right-hand. All windows are 12-pane sashes. Central 1921 doorcase with blocked rusticated columns and segmental broken pediment. Early C19 studded plank door with 3-light rectangular fanlight. Moulded cornice, blocking course and 2 hipped dormers in hipped roof. Side ashlar stacks. Balustraded terrace with 5 steps down to lower level. Interior. Staircase with wreathed mahogany handrail, plain balusters and carved tread ends. The house was built by Samuel Baker. Listing NGR: ST4920161326 House G ll
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Categories: North SomersetClevedon Conservation Area. C19 municipal park, woodland belt, lawns and flower garden. Donated to town by Sir Arthur Elton of Clevedon Court (qv) in mid C19. Unlimited access.
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Categories: North SomersetMunicipal park laid out on land purchased from Bristol and Exeter Railway Co. in 1871. Elaborate floral clock,lawns, shrubs and young trees. Odeon Cinema – https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1311970
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Categories: North SomersetMunicipal park opened 1902. Chiefly grassland; perimeter belt and central clump; children’s yachting pool opened 1950s; pitch and putt on site of former allotments 1966.
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Categories: North SomersetEnglish Heritage Register Grade II*. Long Ashton Conservation Area covers southern part of park. Landscape park on older site, property of Smyth family 1545-1960. Field evidence of C16-17 formal gardens;deer park in continued use; many ancient trees. Ha-ha boundary to formal garden probably mid C18. Present well-wooded landscape dates from Sir Hugh Smyth’s reworking of estate c1802, with advice from Repton. Later C19 exotics and avenues, rockery and formal gardens. Miniature steam railway, pitch-and-putt golfcourse, cafe, all date from 1960, when ownership passed to Bristol City Council. House (LB I) C15, altered c1635, late C18 and C19;four Tudor Gothic lodges (LB II) 1820s and 1880s;icehouse early C19; keeper’s cottage and walled garden (LB II) probably c1720s. Public open space. EH Country house, now used for public purposes. C15; altered and extended c.1635 (the south-west wing); late C18 and early C19 remodelling and alteration of c.1885. Rendered with freestone dressings; slate roofs with coped verges; coped parapets with moulded eaves cornice. 2 storeys and attics. The South- West Facing Elevation consists of projecting wings to the north and south and a recessed centre. In the centre is the core of the mediaeval building: three 4- and 2-light windows with cusped ogee heads, under square hood moulds on the ground floor and with 4-centred heads above (all early C19, restored); attics in 2 steep gables with finials; central porch tower of ashlar with an embattled parapet; a later single-storey porch projects, with panelled gothick pilasters, and an embattled parapet with pinnacles, pointed arch doorway with carved spandrels. To the left is an advanced 2 storey, 2 bay section (it obscures another bay of the core, one gable of which can be seen): one 4-light Perpendicular style window and other 3-light cross windows with moulded mullions and surrounds. The north (library or billiard-room) wing was remodelled c.1805: 3 bays; ashlar on the ground floor with 4-light windows as the centre; rendered on the second floor with 2-light windows, string courses between each floor; two gables with blocked bullseye windows and surmounted by paired circular chimneys with moulded cornice and caps; at the left end is a polygonal ashlar turret with an embattled parapet; on the gable end is a 2 storey canted bay which is Gothick glazing bar sash windows with ogee heads and in moulded and panelled ogee-headed architraves; the north side of the wing has 3 Gothick glazing bar sash windows under ogee heads. The south range matches the north wing but is 4 bays and without the bay window on the gable end: South-East Facing Elevation. Central 3 stage and attic gatehouse: late mediaeval but extensively remodelled, especially in the C19; ashlar; flanking polygonal stair turrets with plain parapets and single and 2-light windows with trefoil heads; panelled doorcase with arcaded frieze and panelled and traceried door; 4-light window on second stage, 3-lights on third under an arched string course; stepped gable and central clock. To the left is the rendered classical wing of c.1635: 5:3:2:3 bays of large pane sash windows under alternating triangular and segmental pediments on the ground floors and cornices on brackets on the first floor; 2:5:2 bullseye windows to the attic storey and a fretwork frieze with ball finials on the pedestals; the basement has 3 paired shell-headed niches and 2 oval panels. To the right is the 7 bay, ashlar, music room wing: 4-light cross windows on ground floor, 3- and 5-light windows on first floor, all with cinquefoil heads and under square hoodmoulds; buttresses between the bays; embattled parapet with pinnacles. The Stables Wing faces north-east: ashlar; 2 storeys; 3:3:3 bays with an embattled central parapet and plain side parapets; polygonal turrets flank the centre, lancet and cross-loop.windows; central 4-centre headed doorway and blocked 4-centre headed coach-entries to each side (now with inserted 3-light cusped windows); the outer bays have a similar doorway with flanking 3-light cusped windows, circular pitching eyes to centre of first floor. Interior. Inner Porch has a Vaulted ceiling, Great Hall: blocked 4-centre headed doorway to north-east in a moulded surround; 2 large 4-centre headed, moulded archways to south-east and west, the latter leads to the dog-leg staircase which has a closed string, twisted Ionic balusters and a cornice and handrail with classical moulding; elaborate gothic fireplace with panelled piers and embattled top, moulded surround, gabled overmantel with a decorative tympanum, gothic style iron grate. Refectory or kitchen: 3 bay arch-braced collar beam roof with 3 tiers of windbracing (restored). Library or-billiard rooms in a Gothick style; arcaded walls with ogee heads, finials and pendants; elaborate cornice and ceiling with a panelled centre surrounded by 8 drawn-out ogee panels; Corinthian columned marble fireplace; china cupboards with gothick glazing. Inner Hall: bolection moulded fire surround with a reset datestone of 1691. Drawing Room (Long Gallery): large bolection moulded fire-surround with Ionic columns (remains of C17 frieze survive in another room); on the first floor is an elaborate marble fireplace with Corinthian pilasters, a plain frieze, and a central open pediment with carved embellishments of fruit and flanked by half swan-necked pediments. Large and small Panelled Rooms: raised and fielded panels with raised borders; bolection moulded fireplaces under pulvinated friezes; panelled doors in shouldered architraves. Vaulted Hall: fan vaulted roof with a cylindrical central pier. Music Room: coffered ceiling; linenfold panelled walls; two ashlar fireplaces with moulded 4-centred arches and large hoods supported on twisted and panelled piers; central segmental headed niche. Stables: the southern part has elaborate cast iron gothic style loose boxes with panelled sides. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England : North Somerset and Bristol, 1958). Listing NGR: ST5570971837 = G 1
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Categories: North SomersetEarly C19 house and garden; ha-ha separating garden from small meadow; mature specimen trees; rose gardens c1900. House (LB II) 1810-20. Small country house. Circa 1810-20. Ashlar; hipped slate roof behind parapet with moulded cornice, panelled frieze. 2 storeys on a plinth, cellars and attics to the rear. 5 bays: the outer and central bays are slightly advanced; the central bay rises through the parapet and is terminated by a blocking course. Glazing bar sash windows; those on the ground floor of the outer bays have moulded architraves and pediments on brackets and are set in shallow recessed, semi-circular headed niches; square, sunken panels over bays 2 and 4; moulded cill band under first floor windows. Central French door under fanlight, flanked by narrow sash windows; all set under a projecting porch, curvinlinear on plan, with Ionic columns, panelled frieze and a moulded cornice. Above the porch shallow segmental headed niches and sunken square panels flank the central window which has an architrave. Interior: cantilever staircase with wrought iron balustrade; elaborately detailed plasterwork to dome over stairwell. Listing NGR: ST5008969148 – House Grade ll
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Categories: North SomersetBanwell Conservation Area. Battlemented gardens and terraces for elaborate Victorian sham castle. Terrace to ornamental dairy, an octagonal turret overlooking garden; garden wails with decorative towers; walled garden; separate walled kitchen garden with circular tower. All contemporary with house. House (LB II*) 1848 for John Dyer Simpson; all above features LB II*. Summerhouse. Early C19. Unworked stone, brick, pebbles. Single room. Each elevation rises to a (false) pedimented gable; elevation to house has 3 pointed arches clad in small flat pebbles; similar single arch entrances in each side; rear has 3 arched head niche seats; a single pitch roof falls front to back to shed water between rear wall and a lower inner skin. Internally, only a low stone seat. In poor condition at time of survey. One of an extensive set of picturesque estate features erected by the antiquarian Bishop Law of Bath and Wells on his Banwell estate. Listing NGR: ST3828658774 – Grade ll CR three other listings