Stowell Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1961. Country house. 3 related planning applications.
Stowell Hill House
- WRENN ID
- blind-lantern-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1961
- Type
- Country house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stowell Hill House is a country house built in 1923/24, with a later extension, designed by Sir Guy Dawber for Mr. McCreery. The house is constructed of local stone rubble with ashlar dressings, featuring a hipped roof covered in plain clay tiles and tapered chimney stacks with ashlar copings. It is an example of Arts and Crafts style architecture.
The house is arranged with an "H" plan and has a random arrangement of windows on the north front. Small-pane casement windows are set within rubble quoins, with bracketted eaves. A two-storey porch, slightly projecting from the centre of the north front, has a flat roof behind stepped coping and contains a pair of flush oak doors within an architrave, topped with a flat stone hood supported by corbel brackets. Above the doors is a full-length window within a stylised ashlar surround, complete with a wrought iron balcony. The south rear elevation has a 2+2+2 bay arrangement, with central French doors set within an architraved surround and a segmental pediment. To the east end is a projecting, flat-roofed open loggia, followed by a masking wing wall. The other elevations display similar character.
The interior retains a high level of detail with very few alterations to the original design. The garden has been fully landscaped in a style appropriate to the period. A date plaque is visible on the west elevation.
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