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Latitude: 51.0498 / 51°2'59"N
Longitude: -2.3896 / 2°23'22"W
OS Eastings: 372784
OS Northings: 127895
OS Grid: ST727278
Mapcode National: GBR 0VJ.2ND
Mapcode Global: FRA 56WB.WBG
Plus Code: 9C3V2JX6+W4
Entry Name: Physicwell House
Listing Date: 24 March 1961
Last Amended: 25 January 1985
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1238359
English Heritage Legacy ID: 415838
ID on this website: 101238359
Location: Somerset, BA9
County: Somerset
District: South Somerset
Civil Parish: Stoke Trister
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset
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Physicwell House
(formerly listed as Horwood Well House)
24.3.61
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II*
House. Circa 1805. Doulting stone ashlar; hipped Welsh slate roof behind parapet, rendered brick chimney stacks. In style of a Regency Villa. 2 storeys, 3 bays each face. West elevation has plinth, small dentilled cornice low parapet without coping; centre bay projects slightly; semi- circular headed sash windows to ground floor set in arched recesses, and above 12-pane sashes in plain reveals; central doorway has pair glazed doors with slim sidelights under ornate Regency semi-circular cast iron fanlight. Some blind panels to side elevations, on which windows were formerly 'painted-in'. Semi-circular plain projection to rear having staircase, with door in side and 12-pane sash window set on
curve. Interior very little changed: good cantilevered stone staircase; fine doors, including one made on curve to fit curved partition to centre room.
A speculation of the local Messiter family after two mineral springs were discovered in 1805 (one in house): Horwood spa offered the 'water cure' with baths, visitor's rooms, a small chapel, and even a nearby bank which opened 1808 and was forced to close 1810. Messiter went bankrupt, 1819, and the building sold and converted to farmhouse with offices. (Sweetman, G. "History of Wincanton" c1903).
Listing NGR: ST7278427895
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