RANGE OF LINKED BUILDINGS FORMING KELWAYS NURSERIES

RANGE OF LINKED BUILDINGS FORMING KELWAYS NURSERIES, SOMERTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1056636
Date first listed:: 07-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: RANGE OF LINKED BUILDINGS FORMING KELWAYS NURSERIES
Statutory Address:: RANGE OF LINKED BUILDINGS FORMING KELWAYS NURSERIES, SOMERTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1056636
Date first listed:: 07-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: RANGE OF LINKED BUILDINGS FORMING KELWAYS NURSERIES
Statutory Address 1:: RANGE OF LINKED BUILDINGS FORMING KELWAYS NURSERIES, SOMERTON ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: RANGE OF LINKED BUILDINGS FORMING KELWAYS NURSERIES, SOMERTON ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Huish Episcopi
National Grid Reference:: ST 42610 27586

Details

HUISH EPISCOPI CP SOMERTON ROAD ST42NW LANGPORT 5/67 Range of linked buildings forming Kelways Nurseries - GV II

Nurseries - range of linked buildings. Mostly mid C19. Local lias stone, double Roman clay tile roofs. 'L' plan, four distinct units. Unit 'A' east of offices (qv). Hipped roof; 2 storeys, 3 bays; plinth, string courses; casement windows, upper set in near-elliptical arches with impost blocks and keystones, lower are large sub-divided shop windows bays 1 and 2, and throughway with near-elliptical arch having impost blocks and keystone, bay 3; this block could be later C19. Unit 'B' the south east corner unit: Sussex hipped roof; 3 storeys, 3 bays x 2 bays: random rubble with dressings; plinth, string courses; to ground floor wide near-elliptical arches with impost blocks and keystones, filled with green-house type windows and doors; other floors have 2-light small- pane casements set in voussoired segmental arched openings. Unit 'C' north of Unit 'B' and linked by iron bridge at first floor level; cut and squared stone, hipped roof with Bridgwater ridge finials, upper floors added: 4 storeys, 1 bay facing east; elliptical arched doorway below, above are 2-light casement windows; matching 2-bay south elevation with a door at first floor level and the second floor windows having elliptical arched heads. Unit 'D' linked to, and north of, Unit 'C' by single-storey timber and corrugated iron building: random unsquared uncoursed stone: plinth, band courses; plain gabled roof with ornamented Bridgwater terracotta ridge and finials: 4 storeys, 3 bays east elevation, set at right angles to Units 'B' and 'C'; 2-light casement windows in voussoired segmental arched openings. The interiors not seen. The whole has considerable group value: the nurseries were founded in 1851 as the Royal Nursery, but later took the name of their founder. (VCH, Vol Ill, 1974).

Listing NGR: ST4261027586

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Sources

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Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1974)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.