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Latitude: 51.0548 / 51°3'17"N
Longitude: -2.7273 / 2°43'38"W
OS Eastings: 349121
OS Northings: 128634
OS Grid: ST491286
Mapcode National: GBR MK.FT0C
Mapcode Global: FRA 565B.H8W
Plus Code: 9C3V373F+W3
Entry Name: Medwyn House and Front Boundary Wall and Railings
Listing Date: 17 April 1959
Last Amended: 30 September 1985
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1177152
English Heritage Legacy ID: 262943
ID on this website: 101177152
Location: Lower Somerton, Somerset, TA11
County: Somerset
District: South Somerset
Civil Parish: Somerton
Built-Up Area: Somerton
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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
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