Gainsfords and Front Boundary Railings
GAINSFORDS AND FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056123
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Gainsfords and Front Boundary Railings
- Statutory Address:
- GAINSFORDS AND FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, CHURCH STREET
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- Date:
- 2003-07-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/09222/09
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056123
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Gainsfords and Front Boundary Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- GAINSFORDS AND FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, CHURCH STREET
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:
- GAINSFORDS AND FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hinton St. George
- National Grid Reference:
- ST4196212674
Details
ST4112 HINTON ST GEORGE CP CHURCH STREET (East side)
7/46 Gainsfords
(previously listed as Sunnyside)
and front boundary railings
4.2.58
GV II
Detached house. Early C19. Ham stone cut and squared, ashlar dressings; hipped Welsh slate roof; brick chimney stack.
In a villa style. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Plinth, rusticated quoins. To ground floor, outer bays 12-pane sash windows in
beaded surrounds: to centre bay a 6-panel door with top-lights set in recess: across facade a timber, iron and glass
verandah, probably of early C20. First floor, 20-pane sash windows in beaded surrounds, the centre window narrower.
Attached to rear a gabled extension with parallel roof. Interior not seen. About 5 metres west of house the front
boundary railings, with cast- iron hoops of elaborate design set in ashlar wall about 900mm high: pair of late C20
timber gates at north end; the whole adding to the setting of the house and to the village streetscene.
Listing NGR: ST4196212674
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262296
- 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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