3, HIGH STREET
3, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056445
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- 3, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 3, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056445
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- 3, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3, 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:
- 3, 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:
- ST6833934904
Details
ST6834NW
8/76
BRUTON CP
HIGH STREET (North side)
No 3
24.3.61
GV II
House with shop in row. C18. Ashlar stone painted; concrete double Roman tile roof between abutments behind parapet;
brick end chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 7 bays. Plinth, rusticated quoins, cornice and shallow parapet central door of
early C19 pattern with half-round cast iron fanlight over set into sub-arch flanked by attached Doric columns on
fielded panelled plinths, with entablature and pediment; to bay 1 a 12-pane shop window with cast iron mullion with
semi-circular arched doorway to right; to bay 3 double 16-pane sashes with plain surrounds and then mullion, both lower
windows having long moulded hoods on console brackets, with flanking console brackets to cornice and plaster swags
above each window. Lead rainwater stackheads on either side. Interior not seen. In early C18 this house known as the
"Ropers Tenement", but by 1799 it was the gentleman's residence of John Dampier, probably the same person who built
Colinshayes (qv) in Brewham Parish in 1815. (Couzens P, Bruton in Selwood, Abbey Press, Sherborne, 1972; VAG Report,
unpublised SRO, 1975).
Listing NGR: ST6833934904
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261549
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Couzens, P, Bruton in Selwood, (1972)
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, (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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