Print Page
© Mr Charles Hallsworth
IoE Number:
32934
Location:
MYRTLE HOUSE, HIGH STREET (north side)
CHEW MAGNA, BATH AND NORTH EAST SOMERSET, SOMERSET
Photographer:
Mr Charles Hallsworth
Date Photographed:
03 September 1999
Date listed:
04 December 1986
Date of last amendment:
04 December 1986
Grade
II
The Images of England website consists of images of listed buildings based on the statutory list as it was in 2001 and does not incorporate subsequent amendments to the list. For the statutory list and information on the current listed status of individual buildings please go to The National Heritage List for England.
ST 56 SE CHEW MAGNA C.P. HIGH STREET (north side)
3/40 Igbetti
II
House, formerly called Myrtle House. Mid C18 rebuilding of earlier house, raised
one storey in C18, rear additions and alterations of C19, C20 alterations.
Sandstone rubble (formerly stucco) limestone, brick, double Roman tiled roof,
pantiled to rear, with stone gable stacks. 2 storeys and 3 windows, all sashes
in exposed boxes (C20 replacements), ground floor windows have external shutters,
central 6-panelled door with decorative overlight, Doric columns to flat porch,
cornice, deep eaves on corbels, 2 roof-lights. Left return has sash at ground
and first floor right, pitch of roof extended over mid C19 addition, ground floor
has paired sashes in brick surrounds with segmental heads, first floor has 2 sashes
with wider central panes, similar surround. Right return has sash at ground
floor left, C19 sash first floor left, canted bay to ground floor right in
limestone with plate-glass sashes, paired C19 sashes in limestone surround at
first floor, scalloped bargeboards to gable ends. Rear has first floor central
C19 sash, single storey addition with 2 doors and 2 windows, 2-light to left and
3-light to right, with segmental heads, small lean-to with door to left, brick
quoins to C19 addition. Interior: front right room has wide fireplace with
stone jambs and half carved lintel with moulded ribs and chamfered edge, with
carved trefoils, similar to fireplace at Dumper's Farmhouse (q.v.). Dado
panelling, plain cornices, possibly originally through-passage house.