De Montalt Wood

SUMMER LANE, Combe Down (South side (off)) 656-1/71/2005 De Montalt Wood

(Formerly Listed as: SUMMER LANE, Combe Down De Montalt) 05/08/75 II

Detached villa in own grounds. Dated 1848. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, slate roof. PLAN: Picturesque Italianate villa to L-plan, with gables in four directions. EXTERIOR: Two storeys, windows mainly plain sash. Entrance front has gable to right with eight-pane sash in moulded architrave and with segmental pediment on deep scroll supporters above square porch with balustrade with date stone, on arched doorway to heavy archivolt with imposts with steel doors and fanlight, all to four steps with open balustrade to terminal piers and ball finials. Inner doors are panelled, with fanlight. To left arched light to heavy stone balcony above triple arched light with archivolt on imposts, pilaster mullions, and apron panels. Plinth, mid platband, deep eaves and overhang to gable, detail also to other fronts. To right set back rear gabled wing. Large triple ashlar stack with skirt and heavy pedimented capping to left of gabled end. Return, to main garden front, has gable to right with arched light to heavy stone balconette above large eight-pane sash with apron panel, to left tripartite sash above canted bay with moulded cornice and balustrade over deep French casements, to centre on flight of five steps. Large ashlar stack with four shafts to left, as on front range. At corner late C20 conservatory, and return has three-pane sash at first floor, with additions at ground floor, including steel casement. Rear gable has small square stack, but with capping as others, larger stack to right gable external. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: A picturesque Italianate villa in the manner of H.E. Goodridge, which visually and historically forms a group with the De Montalt works [q.v.]. The Goodridge attribution is strengthened by the fact that Goodridge¿s architect son Alfred lived here around 1870. Another occupant was John Whitaker, furniture manufacturer and proprietor of the De Montalt Works. SOURCE: Peter Addison, `Around Combe Down¿ (1998), 7 3, 93-94.

Listing NGR: ST7607061957