The Old Hall
THE OLD HALL, COW SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056690
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1959
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Hall
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD HALL, COW SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056690
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1959
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD HALL, COW SQUARE
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:
- THE OLD HALL, COW SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Somerton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 49073 28658
Details
ST49NW SOMERTON CP COW SQUARE (West side)
9/149 The Old Hall 17.4.59
GV II
Detached House. C18, but with earlier fragments. Local lias stone cut and squared, with Ham stone dressings; clay pantile clad Mansard roof with stone slate base courses, between coped gables; brick end chimney stacks. Double roof plan; 2 storeys with attics, 5 bays. Sash windows of 12 panes set flush with wall, the lower windows under a continuous string course, the upper windows having timber lintels; two pitched roof dormer windows with initials LOE/LOA in pediments; projecting stone open porch with solid sides, having Ionic columns carrying full entablature, framing a tall door of 6-panels with 'Y'-traceried toplight set in architraved surround. On south side a projecting attic oriel window, with gabletted finial and weathervane. Interior not seen. Known as the Old Hall since at least 1661, it may well stand on the site of the former Hall of Pleas, Somerton having been the County Town of Somerset between 1278 and 1366. (VCH, Volume III, 1974).
Listing NGR: ST4907328658
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262955
- 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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