Court House
COURT HOUSE, SILVER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056577
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Court House
- Statutory Address:
- COURT HOUSE, SILVER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056577
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Court House
- Statutory Address 1:
- COURT HOUSE, SILVER 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:
- COURT HOUSE, SILVER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Muchelney
- National Grid Reference:
- ST4280824408
Details
MUCHELNEY CP SILVER STREET (North side)
ST42SW
LOWER MUCHELNEY
8/231 Court House
17.4.59
GV II
House. Early C18, modified 1874 and 1918. Local lias stone cut and squared, Ham stone dressings; plain clay tiled roof
between coped gables; stone and yellow brick chimney stacks. Double roof plan, 2-storeys with attics, 3-bay west
elevation. Buttresses between bays with gabled tops and offsets, eaves course; hollow chamfer mullioned windows in wave
mould recesses, 4-light to outer lower bays, with separate labels, 3-light above without labels; pitched roof gabled
dormers with 3-light leaded casements to each bay; to lower bay 2 cambered arched doorway with slit window to left and
2-light window without label to right, with string course over spanning between buttresses; left of bay 1 a single
light window - this and all windows have rectangular leaded panes. South west gable has single and double-light, the
latter with C15 tracery - south east gable represents the 1874 addition, incorporating many features from Muchelney
Abbey (q.v), including panel and cambered arched doorway and further C15 windows, including 4-light mullioned window in
east return with quatrefoil panels under. Interior has some modified cambered arched doorways, a pointed Gothick
plaster vault in hall and good C19 fireplace in east room. North east section added by Ralph Fry, builder, in 1918.
House served as vicarage during C19. (VCH vol III, 1974).
Listing NGR: ST4280824408
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263297
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1974)
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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