Triscombe House

Triscombe House is a country house, now divided into flats, built in 1904 by architect Sir Ernest Newton. The building is rendered and colourwashed over random rubble, with a hipped slate roof behind a parapet and rendered chimneys. It features a "U"-shaped plan, with the main rooms facing south (the entrance) and east, and a domestic wing to the west. The house is two storeys high with an attic and has a symmetrical facade with 1:1:5:1 bays. There are three hipped dormers with three lights each, and 12-pane sash windows with glazing bars and decorative blind boxes, although the outer bay on the right side, part of the domestic wing, lacks these features. On the ground floor, the left side of the main block has a flat-roofed five-light bay supported by Ionic columns and featuring leaded lights. The outer bay on the right has a lead-capped semi-circular bay with leaded lights, while a full-height canted bay to the right includes a shell-headed Ham stone ashlar porch on console brackets. Inside, there is Jacobean style panelling and a geometric Jacobean plaster ceiling in the dining room to the right. This house is a very typical example of Sir Ernest Newton's work and is reputed to have been built for a master of the Quantock stag hounds.