Mason's Arms Public House
MASON'S ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, DONIFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057490
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Mason's Arms Public House
- Statutory Address:
- MASON'S ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, DONIFORD ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057490
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Mason's Arms Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MASON'S ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, DONIFORD ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- MASON'S ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, NORTH STREET
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:
- MASON'S ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, DONIFORD ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- MASON'S ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, NORTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Williton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 07682 41270
Details
ST04SE WILLITON CP NORTH STREET (North side)
2/237 Mason's Arms Public House
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- II
Farmhouse, now public house. C17, enlarged and altered mid C19, extensively altered internally mid C20. Roughcast over rubble, thatched roof half hipped at South end, rendered stacks West gable end, on East front right gable end, to left of cross passage and large external stepped stack left. V-plan at road junction, originally 3 cell and cross passage facing East (Doniford Road), enlarged by 3 bays, addition at an angle facing South West onto the Watchet road, now internally much altered. East front: one and a half storeys, irregular fenestration, all Cl9 and C20 windows, one eybrow dormer, 2 casements to right, groundfloor large external stack to right of 2-light casement, 3 windows left and 2 right of C20 thatched gabled porch. Left return fronting the Watchet road, angled site, 4 bays, all C20 fenestration, C19 gabled red sandstone ashlar porch with segmental headed opening second bay right, red sandstone rusticated surround to plank door left. Interior: only groundfloor viewed, much altered. Although extensively altered, the thatched roof and chimneys of the Mason's Arms form an important landscape feature at the Northern exit from Williton. The earlier farmhouse was probably converted into an inn in the late C18-early C19 when the turnpike, situated some 20 metres South, regulated the road traffic. North Street was known as Shutgate Street until the 1970s because of the turnpike.
Listing NGR: ST0768241270
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265003
- 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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