8 High Street

Description

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

ST5515NE YEOVIL CP HIGH STREET (North side)

8/42 No 8

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GV II

Shop, c1830: ashlar stone colourwashed, the roof hidden behind a parapet. A 3-storey not quite symmetrical facade of 3-bays in Regency style. Modern shopfront to ground floor, with 6-panel doors simply set on either side, the left-hand being wider and having a margined fanlight, the right-hand door having a plain fanlight; the facade above has pilasters framing the 3-window bays and a further blank 'bay' on each side: the centre at first floor level has a recessed blind panel with Soanian architrave flanked by angled bay/oriel windows with plain sashes: a simple band course divides off the second floor windows, which are plain sashes set in panelled architraves, and the whole is crowned by a classical cornice with low parapet, raised slightly over central bay, finishing with cast iron railings with an intertwined pattern. There is a rendered chimney stack to the right. Interior not seen. This property included for its group value in the High Street and The Borough.

Listing NGR: ST5564015976

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0882 IOE Records taken by Brian Haigh; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr Brian Haigh. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project