21 AND 23, COMMERCIAL ROAD
21 AND 23, COMMERCIAL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1058459
- Date first listed:
- 16-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 21 AND 23, COMMERCIAL ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 21 AND 23, COMMERCIAL ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1058459
- Date first listed:
- 16-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 21 AND 23, COMMERCIAL ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 21 AND 23, COMMERCIAL ROAD
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:
- 21 AND 23, COMMERCIAL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shepton Mallet
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 61751 43596
Details
ST6143 SHEPTON MALLET CP COMMERCIAL ROAD (South side)
6/77 Nos 21 & 23
16.10.74
- II
Court house and police station, now police station and store. 1858 by C. Wainwright and R. Heard. Coursed squared limestone rubble, dressed stone detail, slate roof, ashlar stacks. Jacobean Revival, symmetrical facade. 2-storeys and attic, 11-bays, stone mullion and transom windows having 4-centred lights; some with angled labels. Third and ninth bays in wings projecting at right angles to facade. Second and tenth bays in flanking 3-storey towers with flat roofs, each with open porch at its base made up two 4-centred archways. Four 4-centred doorways with chamfered stone surrounds, studded plank doors, elaborately scrolled cast iron hinges. Shaped end gables with copings to each and projecting wings. Erected 2 years after the establishment of the Somerset County Constabulary.
Listing NGR: ST6175143596
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 266475
- 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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