Church House, Wall and Railings

CHURCH HOUSE, WALL AND RAILINGS, BROADWAY STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1057042
Date first listed:
04-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:
Church House, Wall and Railings
Statutory Address:
CHURCH HOUSE, WALL AND RAILINGS, BROADWAY STREET

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1057042
Date first listed:
04-Feb-1958
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:
Church House, Wall and Railings
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH HOUSE, WALL AND RAILINGS, BROADWAY STREET

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH HOUSE, WALL AND RAILINGS, BROADWAY STREET

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

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Broadway
National Grid Reference:
ST 32019 15447

Details

BROADWAY CP BROADWAY STREET (north side) ST3215

11/1 Church House (formerly listed as Congregational Chapel), wall and railings 4.2.58

GV II

Congregational chapel, undergoing conversion to dwelling at tine of survey (December l985), Dated 1739 and 1870, altered 1984-5. Squared and coursed Has stone, randoo rubble at rear and on rear portion of returns, bitaaenised slate roof, coped gable to facade with ball finial. Plan: rectangular jet gable end unto road. Two storeys, lunette in gable end, datestone below, semi-circular-headed mullioned and transomed windows with hoodmoulds, original stone window centre, renewed or inserted wooden windows in outer bays, ground floor two 3-light stone aullioned and transomed windows with hoodmoulds, 2 cambered head doorways in outer bays with hooded porches, glazed door left, plank door right. Interior not seen, though to have been gutted and remodelled. Wall and railings with gatepiers. C19 restored late C20. Ham stone squared and coursed, flat stone coping. Semi-circular in plan with central gates. Wall fronting road swept down and returned in semi-circle as dwarf wall with sanddleback. Ham stone coping and renewed iron railings to renewed double pates with urn finials, Included primarily for group value, occupying a prominent site in the middle of the village. (Photograph in NMR).

Listing NGR: ST3201915447

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
264056
Legacy System:
LBS

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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