Earnshill House is a Grade I listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1959. A 1725 House. 2 related planning applications.
Earnshill House
- WRENN ID
- patient-chapel-wren
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1959
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ST32SE CURRY RIVEL CP EARNSHILL PARK
4/101 Earnshill House
17.4.59
GV I
Country house in emparked grounds. 1725 by John Strachan for Henry Combe, a prominent Bristol merchant. Brick, Ham stone dressings, hipped slate roofs, mostly Turnerised, brick stacks. Palladian style, centre enriched, with plain flanking pavillions. Two storeys and attics, centre with basement, 2:1:3:1:2 bays, sash windows with glazing bars removed, centre 3 project under triangular pediment, outer bays set back, cornices; central door opening piano nobile reached by 2 incurved flights of steps, paired glazed doors; doorcase. Below these staircases a further door opening with a semi-circular arch head. Large flanking wings, sash windows, project to enclsoe forecourt area; at rear of these stables and service buildings. Interior of the house not seen but believed good with fine contemporary features. (Country Life, October 13 and 20, 1960).
Listing NGR: ST3859621722
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