Hazlegrove House

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QUEEN CAMEL CP HAZLEGROVE Hazlegrove House

(Formerly listed as Hazelgrove House, HAZELGROVE)

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GV II Detached house, now school. C17 or earlier, largely rebuilt by Carew Mildmay in 1730. Ham stone ashlar; hipped Welsh slate roof, brick chimney stacks.Three storeys, 7-bay south elevation. Plinth, band courses, eaves cornice, single pilasters each end and double pilasters between bays 2 and 3 and 5 and 6, crossed by hoodmoulds lining through with window heads of ground floor; first floor windows have individual pediments and console bracketted cills, second floor architrave only: to centre bay ground floor pair almost fully glazed doors set in architrave under moulded hood on console brackets. Single storey brick and tiled extension on west side, and other extensions to north. East elevation plainer with lias ashlar and Ham stone dressings; 2-bays, then 3 bays projecting; below plain sash windows, above 12-pane sashes to first floor and 6-pane to second, in plain surrounds with keystones; then low 2-storey wing with plain clay tile roof over stone slate base courses, coped with gable; single bay, with ovolo mould mullioned windows under square labels, a wide 2-light below and 3-light above; pitched roof dormer in roof space. Interior not seen.

Formerly the home of the Mildmay family, lords of the manor, now Junior School of Kings School, Bruton. (Lankester RPA, A History of Hazlegrove House in the Parish of Queen Camel, Somerset, 1958).

Listing NGR: ST5989826902