Keepers Cottage
KEEPERS COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057352
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Keepers Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- KEEPERS COTTAGE
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- Date:
- 2002-07-03
- Reference:
- IOE01/04292/32
- Rights:
- © Mr R.M Rayner. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057352
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Keepers Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- KEEPERS COTTAGE
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:
- KEEPERS COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Somerset
- District:
- Somerset West and Taunton (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Carhampton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 00241 43247
Details
ST04SW CARHAMPTON CP _
8/1 Keepers Cottage
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- II
Toll house, now dwelling. Dated 1738, altered mid C19. Red sandstone random rubble, steeply pitched patterned clay tile roof, slight bell-cast, overhanging eaves, sprockets, decorative ridge tiles, brick stacks set in from gable ends. Plan: 2 cell and cross passage, single storey one bay addition right. Two and a half storeys, 3 bays; gabled dormer casements within roof space, first floor Cl9 3-light many paned casements, moulded brick sills, ground floor ground floor 3-light iron casement left and 2 and 3-light casements right of entrance, concrete tile pantiles to right hand windows, clay tiles left, gabled C19 porch with decorative wooden supports on stone plinth, lean-to clay tiled roofed addition right with segmental headed 2-light casement. Left return gable end fronting road, date stone in apex inscribed "IAH 1738", first floor 2 leaded iron casements, ground floor right 3-light ovolo moulded mullioned window with renewed base. Interior not seen. Very similar design to the Bonding Toll House (qvl Dunster CP, dated 1708. Keepers Cottage is thought to be the Paradise Toll House.
Listing NGR: ST0024143247
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265283
- 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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