Leavers' Court
LEAVERS' COURT, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056642
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Leavers' Court
- Statutory Address:
- LEAVERS' COURT, WEST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056642
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Leavers' Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEAVERS' COURT, WEST 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:
- LEAVERS' COURT, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Somerton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST4894828517
Details
ST4828 SOMERTON CP WEST STREET (North side)
8/239 Leavers' Court
(formerly listed as Two Houses
west of entrance to Wesleyan
Chapel)
7.1.76
GV II
House, in row. Origins of c1500. Local lias stone cut and squared to undercroft, rendering on timber frame above; clay
double Roman tiles with simple gables; brick end chimney stacks. Two storeys, 2 bays: 2 light small pane casements
above; below C19 infill, possibly under former jetty; bay 1 has double garage door under shaped timber lintol, then
late C20 panelled door under rectangular fanlight, then 16-pane sash windows: traces of an apparently 4 bay timber
frame at first floor level. VCR records that from at least 1672 this was the Nag's Head Inn; it was divided into two
houses in C19 and refronted; remains of moulded bressumer of late C15 or early C16; side wall of yard entry is of stud
and panel construction; yard is flagged with stone sett lane behind; late extension to rear. (VCH, Volume III,
1974).
Listing NGR: ST4894828517
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263047
- 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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