This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
LANGPORT CP CHEAPSIDE (South side) ST4126 10/107 House 10 metres west of Langport Arms Hotel (formerly listed as premises 14 yards west of Lanport Arms Hotel) 17.4.59 GV II
House, now solicitors' offices. Mid C18. Local lias stone cut and squared Ham stone dressings; Welsh slate Mansard roof between stepped coped gables; rendered brick chimney stacks. Two storeys, 6 bays. Plinth, band course between floors, moulded eaves course, rusticated quoins; 12-pane sash windows in architraved surrounds, the upper windows having segmental arched heads; some panes are crown glass, but the windows to upper bays 1 and 2 have had their glazing bars removed; wide 8-panelled door set in architrave with keystone, bay 6; above this a stone plaque reading 'Walter Bagehot/was born in this house/February 3rd 1826/He died at Herds Hill/March 24th 1877'. Walter Bagehot was the celebrated author, economist and critic, whose monument is in the churchyard of Church of All Saints, Langport (qv).
Listing NGR: ST4197526779
This is part of the Series: IOE01/1876 IOE Records taken by Graham Slocombe; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Mr Graham Slocombe. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Slocombe, Graham
Rights Holder: Slocombe, Graham
Brick, Ham Hill Stone, Lias, Render, Welsh Slate, Georgian House, Monument (By Form), Domestic, Dwelling, Plaque, Commemorative, Commemorative Monument, Legal Office, Civil, Legal Site, Commercial, Commercial Office
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