Sherston Lodge, Sherston House and Evercreech House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1961. Country house. 9 related planning applications.
Sherston Lodge, Sherston House and Evercreech House
- WRENN ID
- bitter-railing-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 June 1961
- Type
- Country house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sherston Lodge, Sherston House, and Evercreech House is a country house that has been divided into three dwellings. It dates from the mid to late 18th century, with some 20th-century alterations. The building is constructed of rubble, mostly coursed and squared, with freestone dressings, and features hipped roofs made of slate and asbestos slate, along with brick, rendered, and ashlar stacks.
The house is designed in a classical style with an irregular layout made up of three distinct sections. The left wing facing the road is two stories high and has three bays. It features corner pilasters, a plain first-floor band, a moulded cornice, and a parapet with coping. The twelve-pane sash windows are set in moulded freestone surrounds. To the right, there is a door opening with paired panelled doors, likely from the 20th century, flanked by fluted Ionic pilasters and topped with a 20th-century slated wooden porch supported by two square Doric columns. This section maintains a consistent style on its other elevations.
Attached to the north is a two-storey wing that is lower in height, featuring wide bracketed eaves and fixed-light twelve-pane casements in moulded stone architraves on the first floor. There are two door openings with three-quarter glazed doors, one of which is in a fluted surround. The north face of this wing has three full-height canted bays with pyramidal roofs and tripartite windows, predominantly sashes on the ground floor, while the first floor has Venetian windows with sashes, where the heads of the centre windows have radiating glazing bars. A further six-bay range attached to the west, which was formerly the service quarters, has three and four-light stone-mullioned windows.
Inside, there are notable features including ornamental plasterwork such as cornices and a frieze, a staircase, and an early to mid-19th-century fireplace. The building is believed to have been the home of General Charles George Gordon, who lived from 1833 to 1885 and was killed at Khartoum.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 9 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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