Listed Building: COMBE (1295990)

ST03NE NETTLECOMBE CP 5/38 Combe - II Rectory, now house. C1797. Roughcast over rubble, exposed quoins, pedimented centre which breaks forward slightly distinguished by quoins; slate roof with overhanging eaves and soffit boards; rendered stacks to main block and to ridge of kitchen wing. U-plan: double-depth central block, gabled to front and hipped to rear, flanked by lower wings (kitchen to left, west, and stables to right, east) which are returned to flank shallow court to front of house. 2 storeys. 3-bay central block with pedimented centre which breaks forward slightly, has 4/4-pane sashes to centre, and outer 6/6-pane sashes above tripartite sashes each with central 6/6-pane sash; central ashlar Ham stone pilaster doorcase, tripartite with 9-panel door and flanking 3-pane side lights articulated by Tuscan pilasters rising to pediment medallions to frieze. Flanking ranges of 2+2-window range, with 3/3-pane sashes to first floor and similar sashes to ground floor with tripartite sash and pnalled door to front face. Garden block has 5-bay central range with similar sashes and outer projecting gable ends of service ranges with round windows above fenestration similar to front. Interior: has lost original main staircase, but otherwise complete with high quality original joinery and plaster cornicing, much simpler in the service wings, and distinguished by some fine late C18 stone and marble chimneypieces, some of which appear to have been reset from a slightly earlier C18 building. The parsonage was demolished c1797 when the village of Nettlecombe was removed from the vicinity of Nettlecombe Court by SirJohn Trevelyan who erected Combe for his youger son George, rector between 1792 and 1827. Listing NGR: ST0543836586