More information : [ST 3529 5859] Hutton Court [G.T.] (1)
Hutton Court incorporates considerable remains of a 15th or
early 16th c. manor house with tower-porch and hall. There is a
Jacobean range at the back and the west front, together with a
summer house, in the garden, is c. 1700-10. (2)
The house has been carefully restored and is of considerable
architectural interest (See G.P. AO/65/42/4) (3)
Hutton Court is a 15th century building with possibly earlier
fragments. It was much altered in the 18th century, and there
are some 19th century additions.
The house, which has a 15th/16th century square tower at the south
elevation, is now two dwellings; the east wing has been
divided off for use as a farmhouse to Court Farm.
Grade 2*. (4)
ST 35 NE HUTTON C.P. CHURCH LANE
5/9 Hutton Court
9.2.61
G.V. II*
Former manor house, now hotel and restaurant. Late C15 - C20.
Coursed rubble, freestone dressings, slate and double Roman tile
roofs, lead. Hall, tower over former porch, inner rooms, later
west and north wings, much reworked east wing closes courtyard,
now filled with C20 kitchen. Garden front (south): 1, 2 and 3
storeys, 6 windows, all glazing bar sashes with upper row gothic
tracery, under dripmoulds, those to tower have thicker glazing
bars, windows to east are paired; dominated by now central 4
storey battlemented tower, 2 windows to left in return of west
facade under parapet and between rusticated pilasters, 2 windows
to hall to right flank gothic doorway, at right first floor are
remains of a 2-light round headed window; most of hall now
concealed by C20 conservatory which reuses C19 cast iron
cambered casements and stained glass. Tower has a weighty string
below battlements, at east and west are single round headed
lights, at north east corner there is a polygonal stair turret
rising above main tower, chimneys of west wing also rise above
battlements. West, now entrance, front: 2 storeys, 5 windows plus
one to left in gable of north wing; early C18 reworking of C17
wing, altered again C19; central C19 square headed porch with
ornate finials and arms, all windows, in architraves with
keystones, have lost glazing bars and are now 2-pane, rusticated
pilasters, moulded cornice, parapet, hipped roof; coped gable to
left has C20 porch and plain single lights. North elevation: 2
storeys, 6 windows, much altered, however one ground floor and
3 first floor windows are 4-light ovolo moulded mullions, 2
retain cames and stays, remaining windows are 3-light C19
casements except one C20 top hung casement at far right; C20
glazed entrance off centre right. East elevation: central block
has 2 storeys, 2 windows and is flanked by the gables of north
and south ranges with one window each; centre has glazing bar
sashes but entrance is a plain chamfered four-centered arch;
gable to south has plain plank door under a relieving arch, one
glazing bar sash above and at the attic a single light with
chamfered surround; gable to north has only C19 pitched roof bay.
Interior: the hall has an arch braced collar beam roof with
intermediate trusses resting on lower purlins, the space between
which and the wall plate is decorated with tracery panels, a
lateral fireplace has a moulded four centered surround, there
is a blocked 2-centre arch to the room to the east which has
very deep chamfered beams; the tower has a very wide newel
staircase from ground to first floor, there is a laver in a
nodding niche at the base of the newel which has plinth and cap,
at first floor there are 2 plain chamfered four-centered arch
doorways, one leads to the west range, the other to a reverse
winder which climbs the remaining floors; the first floor room
has C17 panelling. In the west range the left ground floor room
has C18 panelling with dentilled cornice, room to right,
intact gothick, has a copy moulded framed ceiling ogee headed
door and frame, panelled dado, marble ogee head and frame
fireplace under timber mantle; at first floor is a C17 panelled
bedroom with strapwork frieze with dentils above, there is a
C16 depressed arch, hollow and roll moulded fireplace with C17
timber surround and tripartite overmantle with caryatids and
atlantides bearing grotesque capitals. The north range has stop
chamfered beams and two four centred arch doorways, at first
floor a C20 staircase and partition divide a C17 panelled room
with frieze and small fire surround; at east is a framed truss
and, almost at east gable, a hammer beam truss. Source: Commander
E.H.D. Williams, Report of the Somerset V.A.G., 1980.
5/10 Summerhouse, 30 metres south of south front of Hutton Court
G.V. II
Summer house. Early C18. Rendered rubble, freestone dressings,
slate roof. Single room. Single storey, 2 windows with shouldered
arcitrave and voussoirs, central doorway with moulded architrave
and shallow hood on console brackets, moulded timber cornice with
triglyphs, steep, hipped roof. Plain window openings, now empty,
in end elevations; rear blank.
5/11
Gates, Piers, Flanking Walls and Railings 40 metres north of
Hutton Court
G.V.
II
Entrance feature at Hutton Court. Early/mid C19. Rubble,
freestone, cast iron. 2 square gate piers with round heads
bearing palmette decoration, gates with spearheads and palmettes;
2 low, flanking walls curve away to similar, smaller piers with
less decoration; walls are surmounted by spearhead railings. (5)
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