Osborne House,With Front Boundary Wall, Railings And Gate Piers

ST5616SW YEOVIL CP SHERBORNE ROAD (South-east side)

6/97 No 10 (Osborne House), with front boundary wall, railings and gate piers

11.3.51

GV II

Vills, c1840. Roughcast, hipped Welsh slated roof with wide soffites, brick chimney stack on left-hand side. 2-storeys of 3-bays. Central fine projecting porch set on 5 steps, with fluted Ionic columns and attached columns supporting full entablature and flat roof: 6-panel door, the top 2 panels having been removed to make one glazed panel; 16-pane sash windows to both levels, excluding the right-hand ground floor window, currently 2-light casement window. Inside, the right-hand room has an ornamental plaster ceiling and incised plaster panels to the walls (1 panel damaged); the rear left-hand bedroom also has some fine plasterwork. One or two C19 early fireplaces; most original doors and doorcases survive, as do the fairly plain main and servants' staircases. (Property undergoing restoration January 1983). High stone wall to front boundary capped by C19 railings, with 2 pairs of simple gate piers with moulded caps - the gates missing. The home of Earle Vincent, brewer and developer, active late C19.

Listing NGR: ST5620316077