Banbury Cottage and front boundary walling
Banbury Cottage, 53, Lower Street, Merriott, TA16 5NN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056115
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Banbury Cottage and front boundary walling
- Statutory Address:
- Banbury Cottage, 53, Lower Street, Merriott, TA16 5NN
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056115
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Banbury Cottage and front boundary walling
- Statutory Address 1:
- Banbury Cottage, 53, Lower Street, Merriott, TA16 5NN
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:
- Banbury Cottage, 53, Lower Street, Merriott, TA16 5NN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Merriott
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 44496 12384
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 06/04/2020
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MERRIOTT CP
LOWER STREET (north side)
No 53, Banbury Cottage and front boundary walling,
(formerly listed as No 53 (Banbury Farmhouse) and front boundary walling)
GV II
Semi-detached house. Late C17/early C18, Ham stone ashlar; thatched roof with coped west gable; brick chimney stick. Two storeys with attic, two bays. To ground floor a four-light hollow-chamfer mullioned window in wave-mould recess with label. To first floor, ovolo-mould mullioned windows in wave-mould recesses, three-light without labels. To lower bay two a flat-arched doorway with ovolo-and-wave mould surround, under a label, with a C20 door. Some C20 windows in west gable, but a two-light ovolo-mullioned window with label to attic. Flat roofed extension to rear.
Interior not seen.
About 2 metres in front of house, with return to south-west corner, a near-ashlar stone boundary wall about one metre high, with angled coping, with gap opposite doorway having a pair of wrought-iron gates with arrowhead rails and curved braces. Apparently of same build as No 55, (qv) attached to north-east side: possibly all one house formerly.
Listing NGR: ST4449612384
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262378
- 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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