Grey Gables
GREY GABLES, JOHN BEALE'S HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1058805
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jun-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Grey Gables
- Statutory Address:
- GREY GABLES, JOHN BEALE'S HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1058805
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jun-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Grey Gables
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREY GABLES, JOHN BEALE'S HILL
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:
- GREY GABLES, JOHN BEALE'S HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Pilton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 59357 40834
Details
ST54SE PILTON CP JOHN BEALE'S HILL (East side)
16/124 Grey Sables (formerly The Gables)
2.6.61
GV II*
House. C15, late C16/early C17 alterations; carved date stone MRI 1671. Random rubble, thatch roof, coped verges, 2 rendered and a single brick stack. Open hall house, later altered to 3-unit and cross-passage plan, subsequent C18 internal rearrangment. Single storey and attic, 3:1 bays, 3 and 4-light ovolo-moulded stone mullioned windows under stopped labels, 4-light windows with a central king mullion; left 3 bays to first floor in 3 front-facing gabled dormers with copings and pierced finials; right bay in a projecting wing with a front facing gable, again a pierced finial; all windows with leaded lights, iron stanchions, scrolly iron quadrant on first floor. Door opening to second bay from left, in a chamfered 4-centred stone surround, studded plank door with fine iron strap hinges. Interior with exposed ceiling beams, some C17 doors and door surrounds, small C17 staircase with splat balusters and pierced finials and pendant; fireplace to left of ground floor in a moulded 4-centred head stone surround. Single storey outshut to left is not of special interest.
Listing NGR: ST5935740834
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 267597
- 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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