91, HIGH STREET
91, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056415
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- 91, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 91, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056415
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- 91, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 91, HIGH 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:
- 91, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Somerset
- District:
- South Somerset (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bruton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 67993 34678
Details
ST63SE BRUTON CP HIGH STREET (North side)
5/101 No 91
II
Cottage, end of row. C17 origins. Local stone pebbledash rendered, ashlar plinth; double Roman clay tile roof, plain gables; brick end chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 4 bays. Bay 1 has a C20 3-light casement below, and above timber ovolo-mould frame adapted to a 2-light casement; to bay 2 a C20 part-glazed door in heavy frame with wood architrave, above a small 2-light casement; 9-pane sash windows to both levels bays 3 and 4. To rear, projecting outbuilding with C17 boarded door, set on skew. Interior not seen, but reported is an arch braced truss, also a ceiling beam with run-out stops to a hollow chamfer - other remnants suspected. This house belonged to Hugh Sexey, founder of the Sexey's Hospital (qv) and then his widow in the early C17, and may have been his residence. (Couzens P, Bruton in Selwood, Abbey Press, Sherborne, l972; VAG Report, unpublished SRO, April 1975).
Listing NGR: ST6799334678
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261574
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Couzens, P, Bruton in Selwood, (1972)
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in April, (1975)
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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