Grovecote With Flanking Screen Walls, Front Boundary Wall and Gate Piers
GROVECOTE WITH FLANKING SCREEN WALLS, FRONT BOUNDARY WALL AND GATE PIERS, 50, PRESTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056514
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Grovecote With Flanking Screen Walls, Front Boundary Wall and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address:
- GROVECOTE WITH FLANKING SCREEN WALLS, FRONT BOUNDARY WALL AND GATE PIERS, 50, PRESTON ROAD
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- Date:
- 1999-08-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/00104/19
- Rights:
- © Mr Brian Haigh. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056514
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Dec-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Grovecote With Flanking Screen Walls, Front Boundary Wall and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- GROVECOTE WITH FLANKING SCREEN WALLS, FRONT BOUNDARY WALL AND GATE PIERS, 50, PRESTON ROAD
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:
- GROVECOTE WITH FLANKING SCREEN WALLS, FRONT BOUNDARY WALL AND GATE PIERS, 50, PRESTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Yeovil
- National Grid Reference:
- ST5472016488
Details
73/1/74
YEOVIL
PRESTON ROAD (North side)
50
GROVECOTE WITH FLANKING SCREEN WALLS, FRONT BOUNDARY WALL AND GATE PIERS
(Formerly listed as: PRESTON ROAD 56 GROVECOTE WITH FLANKING SCREEN WALLS, FRONT BOUNDARY WALL AND GATE PIER)
(Formerly listed as: PRESTON ROAD 46)
19-DEC-72
II
Villa, constructed c1830.
MATERIALS: Ashlar under a shallow hipped roof with deep eaves and end chimneystacks.
PLAN: A two-storey house that is rectangular on plan with flanking side walls.
EXTERIOR: It has a symmetrical, classically-styled front (south) of three bays. There is a central projecting porch with slender Tuscan columns, and a six-panelled door, of which the top two are glazed. The entrance is flanked by sixteen-pane sash windows in staple openings and there are a further three sash windows to the first floor. To either side of the façade are rendered side walls with swept, curved copings and niches.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: To the front of the house is a low boundary wall and stone gate piers.
REASON FOR DESIGNATION: Grovecote, 50 Preston Road is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Architectural: as a well-preserved mid-C19 villa, given an effective picturesque architectural treatment
* Design: the symmetrical and balanced design displays good quality craftsmanship using local materials
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261412
- 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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