Argyll House

Argyll House, 12, Gentle Street, BA11 1DP

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1057828
Date first listed:: 22-Jul-1949
List Entry Name:: Argyll House
Statutory Address:: Argyll House, 12, Gentle Street, BA11 1DP

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1057828
Date first listed:: 22-Jul-1949
List Entry Name:: Argyll House
Statutory Address 1:: Argyll House, 12, Gentle Street, BA11 1DP

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: Argyll House, 12, Gentle Street, BA11 1DP

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 77652 47895

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21 December 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

ST 7747 NE 10/67

GENTLE STREET (West side) No 12 (Argyll House)

22.7.49

GV II*

First rated 1770 (probably built 1768-69). Built by the Thynne family. Later lived in by the Dowager Duchess of Argyll (Mistress of the Robes to the Queen; died 1855). Coursed rubble, freestone features, chamfered plinth, rusticated quoins, cornice and parapet. Two storeys, attic and basement. Two windows with architrave heals, glazing bar sashes, outer windows Venetian. Keyed centre light. Single round headed light in centre of first floor. Central panelled door, cross lower panels, cusp-headed centre panels, architrave surround, pediment on brackets,approached by three stops. Mansard pantile roof with one dormer. Return to north has glazing bar sash attic window with flat moulded surround.

Interior: ceiling cornices possibly original. Original Chinese Chippendale stair-case (an excellent example of local joinery). The same pattern is used for lesser stair to attic (cheaper timber and handrails, straight string, smaller scale), this too appears to be original.

Listing NGR: ST7765247895

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Legacy System number:: 266177
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.