Church House and Pound Adjoining to North West
CHURCH HOUSE AND POUND ADJOINING TO NORTH WEST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1057446
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church House and Pound Adjoining to North West
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH HOUSE AND POUND ADJOINING TO NORTH WEST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1057446
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church House and Pound Adjoining to North West
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH HOUSE AND POUND ADJOINING TO NORTH WEST
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:
- CHURCH HOUSE AND POUND ADJOINING TO NORTH WEST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Crowcombe
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 14033 36678
Details
ST1436 CROWCOMBE CP
16/57 Church House and Pound adjoining to North West
22.5.69
GV II*
Church house and pound. Circa 1515, restored 1908. Red sandstone random rubble, Has stone dressings, slate roof, coped verges, stone stack right. 2 storeys, 4 bays, all windows 2-light hollow chamfered, stone mullions with leaded panes, coved string course, ground floor three windows to right and one to left of pair of 4 centred arch doorways, moulded architraves, with early C20 plank doors and decorative hinges. External stone stair on left return gives access to first floor. Interior: fine 7 bay arch braced collar purlin roof with 3 tiers of curved wind braces. Right return red sandstone rubble wall about 2 metres high with 'hit and miss' coping encloses the pound fall swept up over depressed arch entrance with rusticated voussoirs. C20 wooden gate set on forth East side. Wall returned to Church House, Church House is a Scheduled Ancient Monument (Somerset County No.27). (VCH Somerset, Vol.5, forthcoming; Photograph in NMR).
Listing NGR: ST1403636677
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265100
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dunning, R W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1985)
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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