Detail of the Clifton Maybank ornamental stonework frontispiece on the west front at Montacute House, Somerset

Detail of the Clifton Maybank ornamental stonework frontispiece on the west front at Montacute House, Somerset. This Elizabethan Ham-stone house was built in the late sixteenth-century for Sir Edward Phelips, but this stonework was added in the 1780s from the nearby Clifton Maybank house near Yeovil.