Scriveners
SCRIVENERS, COLLEGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057202
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Scriveners
- Statutory Address:
- SCRIVENERS, COLLEGE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057202
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Scriveners
- Statutory Address 1:
- SCRIVENERS, COLLEGE
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:
- SCRIVENERS, COLLEGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- East Chinnock
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 49562 13225
Details
ST41SE EAST CHINNOCK CP COLLEGE (West side)
3/60 Scriveners formerly listed as The Old House) 19.4.61 - II
Cottage. Late C17 with later wing and outshut. Cut and squared Ham stone with ashlar dressings; double Roman clay tiled roof, bargeboarded gables (replacing thatch); end brick chimney stacks. 2-storeys, 3-bays. Hollow chamfer 3-light mullioned windows with plain panes to ground floor bays 1 and 3; entrance door to bay-2 with chamfered cambered arch doorway with massive stone lintel; continuous label over and between windows, stepped up over door; fairly early wood casements to first floor, with iron opening lights fitted with old catches. Interior not seen, but reported are a good cambered arched fireplace with incised spandrils and ogee/hollow moulding in North room, with a plainer fireplace in South room; chamfered crossbeams with rounded steps and runout stops; 4 collar roof trusses with trapped ridge, halved joint collars and two purlins each side, pegged and nailed. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, 1977).
Listing NGR: ST4956213225
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263618
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, (1977)
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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