Somerton Randle

ST49NE SOMERTON CP LODGE HILL (East side, off)

4/153 Somerton Randle (formerly listed as Somerton Erleigh and outbuildings immediately to East) 17.4.59

GV II

Large detached house. Late C18, extensively remodelled 1846. Local lias ashlar stone with Ham stone dressings; hipped Welsh slate roof behind parapets; stone chimney stacks. Two storeys; north elevation of 7 bays, of which the first 4 represent the addition of 1846. Plinth, band course, cornice, shallow parapet; main block has 12-pane sash windows in plain openings with flat voussoired arches, those to bays 5, 6 and 7 on larger scale; bay 6 projects, with a Ham stone Tuscan open portico, with 4 columns on a 2-step base and full entablature, framing a pair of doors with radial glazed rectangular fanlight in architraved surround; above this a Venetian window and in gable pediment a panel with Adamesque decoration : bays 1 to 4 have 9-pane sash windows set lower, bay 4 cutting into main block; to lower bay 1 a glazed door in architraved surround under hood mould. Return elevation on west side of 2 matching bays. south garden front of 7 bays, with 12-pane sash windows above and 15-pane below, French doors to bays 2, 4 and 6 : a later extension extends southwards from east corner as a single-storey wing. Interior not seen. (VCH, Volume III, 1974).

Listing NGR: ST4998928489