Oriel Cottage
10, GENTLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057827
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Oriel Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- 10, GENTLE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057827
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Feb-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Oriel Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- 10, GENTLE STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- ORIEL COTTAGE, GENTLE 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:
- 10, GENTLE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- ORIEL COTTAGE, GENTLE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Frome
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 77638 47869
Details
1. 5363 GENTLE STREET (West side)
GV No 10 and ST 7747 NE 10/65 31.1.74 Oriel Cottage (former listed II as No 10)
2. Dated inside 1709 and 1723. Structure older. (Leased to Richard Tucker in 1692). 2½ storeys, gable end to road. Rubble with pantile roof, 2 chimneys, one of stone, one of brick. Gable end has mid-C19 glazing bar sash and door to left in block surrounds. 1 segmental dormer. North front slightly angled and part of 1st floor jettied. 2 and 3 light mullion windows with ogee and flat moulding (circa 1720), and one ditto on ground floor (restored externally in C19) and a modern 2-light wooden casement. Lower projecting 2 storey gabled wing to north (formerly "Mrs Fortune's Dairy"). Extension to rear with pantile roof, former cottage converted into barn. Interior: stop chamfered beam. Said to have 2 dated beams (1709 end 1723) and dated fireplace on ground floor (concealed) with motto "Thou God seest me 1723". To rear: stairhead projection treated as blind dormer.
Listing NGR: ST7764547884
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 266175
- 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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