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The Abbey, Charlton Adam

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image	The Abbey, Charlton Adam.JPG
name	The Abbey
location_town	Charlton Mackrell
location_country	England
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completion_date	late 16th century

The Abbey is a Grade I listed building in Somerset, England. Built on the site of a 12th-century chapel, which might be incorporated in fragments, the main building dates to the 16th century.

Building

The building is constructed from roughly cut blue lias, dressed with ham stone. The roof is clay tiles, with octagonal ashlar chimneystacks and rubble stone chimneystacks. The majority of the house is two storey high, with a three-story block at the end. The entrance is through a 20th-century porch.

Inside there is pre-Reformation work with Elizabethan paneling. The ceilings are beamed with exposed joists. The fireplaces throughout the house are moulded cambered arches, whilst the drawing room's fireplace has an oak overmantel Above the drawing room was a room known as the 'great chamber' which would have occupied the entire upper floor before being partitioned. The Abbey was designated a Grade I listed building on 17 April 1959.

History

The building was a large rectory house, described as a mansion in 1549. The house had become known as 'Abbey Farm' by 1849

It underwent extensive restoration and rebuilding in the late 16th century. The house was restored again in 1902 for Claude Neville of Butleigh Court, probably by C.E. Ponting, who also restored Lytes Cary in the same parish. The northern part of the house was damaged by fire in the 1960s and plainly restored.

References

"The Abbey". historicengland.org.uk.
(1974). "A History of the County of Somerset". Institute of Historical Research.

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