King John's Hunting Lodge (Axbridge Museum)
AXBRIDGE MUSEUM, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1059142
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1961
- List Entry Name:
- King John's Hunting Lodge (Axbridge Museum)
- Statutory Address:
- AXBRIDGE MUSEUM, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1059142
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- King John's Hunting Lodge (Axbridge Museum)
- Statutory Address 1:
- AXBRIDGE MUSEUM, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- KING JOHN'S HUNTING LODGE, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- KING JOHN'S HUNTING LODGE, THE SQUARE
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:
- AXBRIDGE MUSEUM, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- KING JOHN'S HUNTING LODGE, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- KING JOHN'S HUNTING LODGE, THE SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Axbridge
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 43078 54540
Details
ST4354
12/2
AXBRIDGE
HIGH STREET (South side)
King John's Hunting Lodge (Axbridge Museum)
(formerly listed as The Square (South side))
9/2/61
GV
II*
Inn, now museum. Early C16, restored 1975. Timber framed with studding and prominent braces, continuous jetties to first and second floors with moulded rails on curved brackets; moulded corner post to left; moulded string to first floor; Three prominent gables with cusped bargeboards, double roman tile roof, brick stacks. Three storeys and attic; six single-light windows with ogee heads (a quatrefoil in a circle to each spandrel) to second floor; similar fenestration to first floor except the windows paired; a further window in the face of each gable; ground floor with six large C20 windows of a single pane each, inserted between the studs. Three door openings in surrounds with four-centred heads, ribbed doors. Return to The Square in similar style, two single-light ogee headed windows to each floor, except three large C20 windows to ground floor; ribbed door in a four-centred surround; section of coursed and squared rubble wall to left fording a narrow pier. Carved and painted wooden head formerly placed at the angle between The High Street and The Square now stored inside the building.
The building may have been shops with living accommodation over when first constructed. (V46 report, unpublished SRO, Autumn 1981).
Listing NGR: ST4307854540
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 268654
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, (1981)
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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