Somerford Hall

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SJ 90 NW 5/100

BREWOOD C.P. SOMERFORD PARK Somerford Hall

16.5.53

II*

Country house, now medical practice. Mid C18. Stucco lined as ashlar with rusticated quoins; hipped slate roof; brick stacks. Palladian style; rectangular main block and flanking pavilions to north, and south. Main block: three storeys; moulded plinth and eaves; 1:5:1 windows; both end bays slightly recessed; glazing bar sashes with moulded architraves and plaster keys, single storey porch and six panelled, double leaved door flanked by engaged Corinthian columns with moulded entablature; the semi elliptical fanlight above has radiating glazing bars. Flanking Pavillions: one storey with pediments surmounted by ball ornaments; one central Venetian window with Ionic pilasters.

Interior: good oak open well staircase with turned balusters, those at first floor level restored; C18 panelled doors on first floor; Adam style room on ground floor to West with decorative plaster work on walls and ceiling.

Home of the Monckton family until recently. Stands within a landscaped park; restoration work in progress at time of re-survey. (April 1984)

Listing NGR: SJ9008508193