Brecon House
BRECON HOUSE, 160, NORTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056298
- Date first listed:
- 15-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Brecon House
- Statutory Address:
- BRECON HOUSE, 160, NORTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056298
- Date first listed:
- 15-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Brecon House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRECON HOUSE, 160, NORTH 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:
- BRECON HOUSE, 160, NORTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Milborne Port
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 67719 18697
Details
ST6218 MILBORNE PORT CP NORTH STREET (West side)
12/181 No 160 (Brecon House)
II
Semi-detached house. C16 origins, modified C17 and C19. Part timber framed, part local stone coursed rubble, rendered and colourwashed on front elevation: Bridgwater patent interlocking clay tile roof, gable overhangs; brick end chimney stacks, one with stone base. 2 storeys, 3 bays, leaded casement windows, above 3-light casements with iron framed opening lights; below a 1+3+1 light angled bay window on stone base with lead flat roof to bay 1, and to bay 3 a 2-light window inserted into an older stone stepped chamfer surround under a square label: five panel door with glazed toplight set in recess to bay 2. Small single-storey extension with gabled plain clay tile roof and later casement against South gable. Interior: fragments of two fireplaces, that in the North room with cambered arched timber lintol and stone sides, moulded hollow and ogee; a fragment of early framed ceiling, with reverse ogee moulded beams, fragments of stone and timber cambered arched doorways; in the East (front) wall remains of a timber frame; roof of post and truss structure, but with one tenon-jointed cruck, the first two bays from the South windbraced and smoke blackened. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, 1983).
Listing NGR: ST6771918701
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261918
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, (1983)
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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