Wessex Lodge
Wessex Lodge, 11 and 13
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1051983
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Wessex Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- Wessex Lodge, 11 and 13
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1051983
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Wessex Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- Wessex Lodge, 11 and 13
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Wessex Lodge, 11 and 13
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Taunton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 22974 24345
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20 October 2021 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards
ST 2224 SE
11/422
TAUNTON
BILLETFIELD
Nos 11 & 13 (Wessex Lodge)
II
House, now offices. Circa 1860. Red brick with stone dressings and Welsh slate roof. Gothic villa. L shaped block with stair turret in angle. Main section is three storeys with a four storey tower and a single storey entrance hall on south west side. South entrance front has large porch to left; pyramid roof supported on paired columns with Ruskinian capitals. To right is a three storey gable with a two storey canted bay, five light mullion and transom windows. Two light window with trefoil heads in gable. West front has three two light windows with trefoil heads and stone mullions to single storey section. Behind and above are two light mullioned windows, the upper ones in half dormers. Stack with four octagonal stone shafts. The east elevation has similar gable to south elevation. In the angle between is the four storey octagonal stair turret with decorative stone quoins, single light windows at each level. Fourth floor belvedere with eight windows with Caernarvon arched heads and a conical roof. Rear has small extension, otherwise unaltered.
Interior not inspected.
An externally almost unaltered villa with good design qualities.
Listing NGR: ST2297424345
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 361614
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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