Former Vicarage

FORMER VICARAGE, SHERBORNE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1056300
Date first listed:
15-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:
Former Vicarage
Statutory Address:
FORMER VICARAGE, SHERBORNE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1056300
Date first listed:
15-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:
Former Vicarage
Statutory Address 1:
FORMER VICARAGE, SHERBORNE ROAD
Statutory Address 2:
TAPP'S HOTEL, SHERBORNE ROAD

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
FORMER VICARAGE, SHERBORNE ROAD
Statutory Address:
TAPP'S HOTEL, SHERBORNE ROAD

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 67444 18573

Details

ST6718 MILBORNE PORT CP SHERBORNE ROAD (South side)

12/184 Tapp's Hotel (former vicarage)

GV II

Vicarage, now hotel. 1870. Designed by Henry Hall. Local stone cut and squared, ashlar dressings; plain clay tile roof between coped gables; ashlar stone chimney stacks, some octagonal, all with moulded caps. Closed 'U'-plan: 2 storeys with attic and basement. North elevation of 3 bays, all gabled, the centre bay recessed but with projecting flat roofed porch, having moulded flat headed archway with two stone carved panels over, the upper circular with shield and band with legend "Wilborne Port Sigillum": projecting chimney stacks and attic window only, bays 1 and 3. South garden elevation also of 3 bays, having plinth, string course between floors: chamfer mullioned and transomed windows, with 2 storey angled bay window to bay 1 and single storey bay window to bay 3; no window to lower bay 2: outer gables have attic windows; centre dormer with elaborate bargeboards: other elevations to match. Main rooms of interior little altered on ground floor. Important in its context with the church (qv) and the school (qv), as well as sharing the same designer. (E.D.B Guide to the Parish Church of Milborne Port, 1971).

Listing NGR: ST6744418573

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
261921
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Parish Church of Milborne Port Church Guide, (1971)

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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