Dogmersfield Park (House)

The house at Dogmersfield Park dates to 1728, with later alterations in the late 18th century, early 19th century, and late 19th century. The site incorporates the remains of a medieval palace belonging to the Bishop of Bath and Wells, and an earlier Elizabethan house. The house consists of a large rectangular block and a later wing, together forming a main north-west front. A Victorian structure attached to the south-east creates an interior courtyard, now enclosed on its south-east side by a modern chapel.

The north-east front presents a symmetrical facade of three storeys and five bays, three bays, and five bays. It is built of red brick in Flemish bond, with a plain stone coping to the parapet, a moulded stone cornice, and a pediment over the slightly projecting centrepiece featuring an oval cartouche. Brick bands mark the first and second floors, along with a plinth, flat rubbed arches, and stone cills. Sash windows are present, some with exposed frames, others in reveals. French windows on the first floor of the third and fourth bays, north side, open onto a stone balcony supported by four brackets and with wrought iron railings. Stone niches are located in the second bay from each end on the first and second floors, the lower containing a carved stone female figure and the upper an urn. Seven carved urns adorn the parapet. The late 18th-century central doorway is constructed from fine white stone and has a surrounding architrave, pilasters, and a pediment in a Tuscan order, leading to double doors.

The north-west front is asymmetrical, with a projecting two-storey centrepiece of three windows topped with a pediment containing a carved stone coat of arms, full mouldings, and moulded stone cornices above the ground-floor windows. To the north, the three-storey design provides one, three, and one windows; to the south, the two-storey arrangement continues from the centre with three and one windows. Red brick walls are present, with a projecting first-floor band at the centre and to the south, rubbed flat arches, stone cills, a plinth, and decorative stone cheeks to two sets of three steps, providing access to French windows in the centrepiece and in the centre of the northern half. The southern flank of this front features two and three storeys and one, one, two windows. The eastern flank of the north-east front is three storeys high, with set-back parts, of three, one, zero, and one windows: the three ground-floor windows fill a former three-arch colonnade.

The interior is well-preserved, boasting sumptuous plasterwork and fireplaces. The chapel contains a set of Stations of the Cross sculptures by Eric Gill.