Bowling Green House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1982. Country house.
Bowling Green House
- WRENN ID
- dim-gravel-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1982
- Type
- Country house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bowling Green House is a country house that began construction in 1914, designed by E. Guy Dawber for the de Montmorency family. It is built from local stone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a plain clay tile roof with simple gabled stone chimney stacks. The house has an 'L' plan layout, consisting of two storeys and five bays on the north elevation, with a four-bay return extending northwards. The design reflects a severe Cotswolds style.
The north front is asymmetrical, with projecting gables on bays 1, 3, and 5, while the center bay is smaller. The windows have architraved surrounds and are mostly leaded steel casements, typically with two lights. The doorway in bay 3 features a pair of three-panel doors within a bolection mould surround, topped by a broken pediment on console brackets that displays the arms of Montmorency with a peacock crest. Bay 5 includes a three-light window next to a transomed mezzanine staircase window. The northward return matches the main elevation, featuring a simple part-glazed door in bay 2, also with an architraved surround and a flat hood supported by corbel brackets.
A dated stackhead is present on the west elevation, and all other elevations are designed to match. The interior is not accessible, but the house appears to have changed little over time, with notable plasterwork in the hall attributed to Bankart.
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