Lillycombe House And Retaining Wall To Terrace

Lillycombe House, built in 1912 and designed by Lady Lovelace with assistance from C F A Voysey, features a retaining wall to the terrace. The house is roughcast over rubble and has hipped roofs made of West Somerset slate, with slight bell-cast eaves and overhanging edges. The design includes bargeboards on the gabled bays, a large square roughcast chimney stack on the right, and a tall octagonal roughcast stack rising from the eaves on the left.

The structure is L-shaped and consists of two storeys with an asymmetrical four-bay south front. Many of the windows have cambered lintels and consist of multi-paned casements. The first and third bays on the left project with gabled roofs, while a 2-light casement is located to the right. The ground floor features casements flanking a single-storey hipped roof garden room, with a retaining wall of the terrace displaying 1:4:1 lights and two casements to the right. Pevsner notes a "handsome south verandah on stone pillars," which is unmistakably the work of Voysey, suggesting that the sun room may have been completed after 1958.

The entrance is located on the north front via a gabled wing, which is unusual because the gable end wall and returns are higher than the roof level behind, though it is slated for about one metre to conceal this design flaw. The interior is described as disappointing, lacking contemporary fittings, except for a stick stair in the entrance hall and a few ventilation grills designed by Voysey. The house is part of a notable group of buildings to the east, and it appears that Voysey was brought in late to assist Lady Lovelace with her designs, as indicated by the awkwardness of the entrance facade gable.