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SJ 90 NW
5/100

BREWOOD C.P.
SOMERFORD PARK
Somerford Hall

16.5.53

II*

Country house, now medical practice. Mid C18. Stucco lined as ashlar with rusticated quoins; hipped slate roof; brick stacks. Palladian style; rectangular main block and flanking pavilions to north, and south. Main block: three storeys; moulded plinth and eaves; 1:5:1 windows; both end bays slightly recessed; glazing bar sashes with moulded architraves and plaster keys, single storey porch and six panelled, double leaved door flanked by engaged Corinthian columns with moulded entablature; the semi elliptical fanlight above has radiating glazing bars. Flanking Pavillions: one storey with pediments surmounted by ball ornaments; one central Venetian window with Ionic pilasters.

Interior: good oak open well staircase with turned balusters, those at first floor level restored; C18 panelled doors on first floor; Adam style room on ground floor to West with decorative plaster work on walls and ceiling.

Home of the Monckton family until recently. Stands within a landscaped park; restoration work in progress at time of re-survey. (April 1984)

Listing NGR: SJ9008508193

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Somerford Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7559749

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Recommended Books

• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)