Bay House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1976. House. 5 related planning applications.

Bay House

WRENN ID
muffled-crypt-starling
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Country
England
Date first listed
29 July 1976
Type
House
Source
Historic England listing

Description

Bay House is a house, later used as a guesthouse, dating to circa 1840, with alterations made circa 1880. It is constructed of Ham Hill stone ashlar, featuring stepped stone copings to gabled slate roofs and brick stacks to the gable ends of the main 1840s house. The building has an E-shaped plan, with an 1880s wing added to the left, stepped slightly forward.

The symmetrical, three-window range of the 1840s front (facing west) includes a late 19th-century six-panel door and overlight with two glazing bars, flanked by two-light casements with margin panes. The central panes of these casements have four-centred arched tops, set in plain square-headed architraves. The gable end of the 1880s wing to the east is a one-window range with stepped stone copings to its forward-facing gable. It includes a glazed slit window in the apex, a window matching the original designs to the ground floor, and an oriel window on a substantial corbel, featuring a two-light casement of the same design to the first floor.

The west return features a four-window range, with labelled hoodmoulds, except for two on the first floor to the right; those to the left on both floors are blind. The left return has a five-window range, rendered with plain stone dressings. The rear of the house has three gable ends.

The interior of the main building includes six-panel doors, elliptical arches, and flagstones to the left front room. The hall has a polychromatic tiled floor, and a closed-string staircase with turned balusters. The 1880s wing has four-panel doors.

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