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© Mr Terry Abbiss
IoE Number:
430632
Location:
HAZELGROVE HOUSE,
QUEEN CAMEL, SOUTH SOMERSET, SOMERSET
Photographer:
Mr Terry Abbiss
Date Photographed:
17 January 2004
Date listed:
24 March 1961
Date of last amendment:
24 March 1961
Grade
II
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QUEEN CAMEL CP
ST52NE
HAZELGROVE
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Hazelgrove House
24.3.61
GV II
Detached house, now school. C17 or earlier, largely rebuilt by Carew Mi1dmay in 1730. Ham stone ashlar; hipped Welsh
slate roof, brick chimney stacks. Three storeys, 7-bay south elevation. Plinth, band courses, eaves cornice, single
pilasters each end and double pilasters between bays 2 and 3 and 5 and 6, crossed by hoodmoulds lining through with
window heads of ground floor; first floor windows have individual pediments and console bracketted cills, second floor
architrave only: to centre bay ground floor pair almost fully glazed doors set in architrave under moulded hood on
console brackets. Single storey brick and tiled extension on west side, and other extensions to north. East elevation
plainer with lias ashlar and Ham stone dressings; 2-bays, then 3 bays projecting; below plain sash windows, above
12-pane sashes to first floor and 6-pane to second, in plain surrounds with keystones; then low 2-storey wing with
plain clay tile roof over stone slate base courses, coped with gable; single bay, with ovolo mould mullioned windows
under square labels, a wide 2-light below and 3-light above; pitched roof dormer in roof space. Interior not seen.
Formerly the home of the Mildmay family, lords of the manor, now Junior School of Kings School, Bruton. (Lankester RPA,
A History of Hazelgrove House in the Parish of Queen Camel, Somerset, 1958).