Medwyn House And Front Boundary Wall And Railings

ST49NW SOMERTON CP BROAD STREET (East side)

9/138 Medwyn House (formerly listed as Medwyn) and front boundary wall and railings 17.4.59

GV II

House in row. C17 origins, modified later C18. Local lias stone cut and squared, Ham stone dressings; Welsh slate roof over stone slate base courses; stone chimney stack to coped north gable. Two storeys, 2 bays. Paired 12-pane sash windows with hood moulds, probably trimmed labels from earlier windows; to lower bay 2 a cambered arched doorway with incised spandrils and moulded jambs, and above a C20 small concrete hood on brackets. Interior not seen, but VCH speaks of a long wing to the rear; room at east end has open fireplace adjoining a spiral staircase and smoke chamber; in an upper room a decorative plaster frieze of late C16/early C17, and some reset panelling dated 1623 in the entrance passage; a fine overmantel said to have come from this house now at the Old Parsonage, Parsonage Hill (qv). 1 metre in front of house, stone wall about 750mm high, with Ham stone copings and gabletted capped piers, with cast iron railings having quatrefoil motif, and matching gate, adding to setting of house. Formerly one house with Stocker's House (qv), attached to south. (VCH, Volume III, 1974).

Listing NGR: ST4912128634