UNDER SHERIFF'S OFFICE

UNDER SHERIFF'S OFFICE, WEST STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1056926
Date first listed:: 19-Apr-1961
List Entry Name:: UNDER SHERIFF'S OFFICE
Statutory Address:: UNDER SHERIFF'S OFFICE, WEST STREET

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Date:: 2003-03-22
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1056926
Date first listed:: 19-Apr-1961
List Entry Name:: UNDER SHERIFF'S OFFICE
Statutory Address 1:: UNDER SHERIFF'S OFFICE, WEST STREET

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:: UNDER SHERIFF'S OFFICE, WEST STREET

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: South Petherton
National Grid Reference:: ST 43184 16877

Details

ST4316 7/186 19.4.61

SOUTH PETHERTON CP WEST STREET (West side) Under-Sheriff's Office

GV II*

Former house, on corner site; now offices. Later C17. Ham stone ashlar; Welsh slate roof, coated, between high stepped coped gables suggesting former thatch; brick and and intermediate chimney stacks. 'T'-plan; 2 storeys, 5 bays. Plinth, eaves course, continuous string over openings at both levels, stepped up over doorway: 3-light ovolo-mould mullioned windows in wave-mould recesses, rectangular-leaded panes with iron-framed opening lights; doorway between bays 2/3, cambared-arched and moulded to match, in rectangular recess with incised spandrils, C20 boarded door up 2 steps. Laanto extension against south-west gable to match, with 2-light window having label and external ferramenta. C20 extension to rear in reconstructed stone, roughly matching. Interior not fully seen: formerly through passage plan: a C18 staircase partly modified, fielded panel doors and shutters to windows; the interior considerably modified to meet fire regulations. The law firm in the building found c1749 and this became the Under-Sheriff's Office in 1947. (VCH, Vol III, 1974).

Listing NGR: ST4319316884

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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.