Foundry House

Foundry House, Roadwater, Watchet, TA23 0RG

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1057518
Date first listed:
21-Dec-1984
List Entry Name:
Foundry House
Statutory Address:
Foundry House, Roadwater, Watchet, TA23 0RG
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1057518
Date first listed:
21-Dec-1984
List Entry Name:
Foundry House
Statutory Address 1:
Foundry House, Roadwater, Watchet, TA23 0RG

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Foundry House, Roadwater, Watchet, TA23 0RG

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Old Cleeve
National Park:
Exmoor
National Grid Reference:
ST 03747 39062

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 06/08/2020

ST 03 39
4/111

OLD CLEEVE CP
ROADWATER
Foundry House

(Formerly listed as The Foundry)


II
House. Dated 1864. Rendered over rubble, bitumen covered slate roof, overhanging eaves, soffit board, decorative brackets, moulded brick stacks gable ends. Double pile plan, gable end onto road. Entrance front gable end, two and a half storeys, two bays; two nine-pane windows attic storey, first floor C20 louvred glass window left, blocked opening right, ground floor nine pane window to left of central entrance, gabled porch, arched opening carried on decorative brackets, panelled door. In apex of gable male bust wearing double breasted suit with three rows of buttons, the initials E N and date 1864 below. Right return, garden front, two storeys, three bays, twelve-pane sash windows, central arched opening and single storey three bay wooden verandah with plastic sheeting roof.

Listing NGR: ST03747 39062

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
264869
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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