Girdlers
GIRDLERS, 82, LOWER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056865
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Girdlers
- Statutory Address:
- GIRDLERS, 82, LOWER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056865
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Girdlers
- Statutory Address 1:
- GIRDLERS, 82, LOWER 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:
- GIRDLERS, 82, LOWER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Merriott
- National Grid Reference:
- ST4460812476
Details
ST4412 MERRIOTT CP LOWER STREET (South side)
9/139 No 82
(Girdlers)
GV II
Detached house. Dated 1766. Ham stone cut and squared, ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof between stepped coped gables;
rendered brick end chimney stacks. Two storeys, 3 bays. Plain mullioned windows with beaded surrounds and shallow
architraves, all 3-light with rectangular-leaded panes and iron-framed opening lights. To lower bay 2 a boarded door
with matching surround, up 3 steps, under hipped timber and shingled hood, above which is the datestone inscribed
'T/PA/1766'. In east gable a C19 casement window, with similar windows in the rear extensions. Interior not seen, but
reported is a cross-passage 2-room plan: collar and tie-bead roof. Two pointed-arched windows to rear. (VAG Note,
November 1972; VAG Report, unpublished, SRO undated).
Listing NGR: ST4460812476
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262389
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, (1976)
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in November, (1972)
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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