The Elms and Little Elms
LITTLE ELMS, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057260
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- The Elms and Little Elms
- Statutory Address:
- LITTLE ELMS, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057260
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Elms and Little Elms
- Statutory Address 1:
- LITTLE ELMS, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE ELMS, MARKET PLACE
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:
- LITTLE ELMS, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- THE ELMS, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ilchester
- National Grid Reference:
- ST5216922735
Details
The Elms & Little Elms, Market Place.
10/71
8/71
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ST5222
10/71
19.4.61
ILCHESTER CP
MARKET PLACE (West side)
The Elms and Little Elms
(formerly listed as the Post Office and Little Elms)
GV II
Pair houses, formerly one, at end of row. C18. Ham stone ashlar facade, lias stone coursed rubble to sides and rear;
Welsh slate roof between coped gables, behind front parapet; brick end chimney stacks. Two storeys, 5 bays. Plinth,
plain end pilasters, small cornice, plain parapet with simple coping: 12-pane sash windows in plain openings with head
moulds over; to lower bay 3 a 6 panel door with glazed toplights in recess, flanked by attached Tuscan columns on
plinth, with entablature complete with guttae and metopes over columns, open pediment; to lower bay 5 the window is set
left out of alignment, and to right a similar door in recess with architrave and simpler open pediment hood on console
brackets. Interiors not seen.
Listing NGR: ST5216922735
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263453
- 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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