2 The Avenue / 1 Summerland

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

MINEHEAD

SS9646 THE AVENUE 900-1/3/78 (South side) 04/07/52 No.2

II*

Includes: No.1 SUMMERLAND ROAD. Court room, later house and now shop. C15 with later alterations. Rubblestone with plain tile roof. 2-unit plan. Originally 3 storeys throughout; one-window range. The gabled front facing The Avenue has a small oak-framed C15 two-light window to the apex and a similar larger window to the first floor with cusped heads to the lights. Buttresses, that to the right is massive, flank a C20 shop door. To the right return, in Summerland Road, is a C15 oak door frame with a chamfered 4-centred arch and foliate spandrels to a planked and studded door with strap hinges. INTERIOR: features, mostly concealed, are a hollow-chamfered beam to the ground floor, and a tie beam with mounting for removed joists. The roof structure was replaced late C19. HISTORY: the building was at one time a court room and for many years the Luttrell Estate Offices. (Binding H: Minehead: A New History: Minehead: 1977-: P.37).

Listing NGR: SS9693846215

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1662 IOE Records taken by R M Rayner; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr R.M Rayner. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project