The Mount Somerset, Lower Henlade, Somerset, TA3 5NB
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The History of The Mount Somerset (Formerly Henlade House)
Henlade House is a Georgian building on Stoke Hill looking due north over Henlade and Thornfalcon. It is built of stone, brick and then plastered, at times it has been covered with Creepers and Ivy.
It was built between 1805 and 1815 for Robert Proctor Anderson and his nephew and heir John Proctor Anderdon by an Italian architect who designed it with large windows and ceilings.
Robert Proctor Anderdon was a member of the Board of Agriculture and one of the leading experimental farmers and landowners of his day.
John Proctor Anderdon was an Officer serving with the Duke of Wellington and commanded the city of London Militia at Waterloo.
The kitchen wing is older than the main house and could have been part of the old house or a farm house. The west wing was altered and extended by Henry Murray Anderdon (who was Secretary and later President of Somerset County Cricket Club for many years) in about 1900.
The Gate Lodges and Stable Block were built by John Edmond and James Hughes Anderdon in the 1870s of red brick and ham stone with flat red plain and club or diamond tiles, the Stables with it’s clock tower has been described as a “Monument to Victorian Craftsmanship”.
During the last War, the House was used by the Brampton Down School for girls that was evacuated from Eastbourne. After the death of Captain and Mrs Henry Anderdon in 1985, the house had to be sold out of the family.
In the 90s, it was turned into a country house hotel and is now known as The Mount Somerset.
The History of The Mount Somerset (Formerly Henlade House)
