10, 12 to 14, UPPER HIGH STREET AND WALL TO LEFT OF NO. 10

10, UPPER HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1059907
Date first listed:: 17-Dec-1973
List Entry Name:: 10, 12 to 14, UPPER HIGH STREET AND WALL TO LEFT OF NO. 10
Statutory Address:: 10, UPPER HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1059907
Date first listed:: 17-Dec-1973
List Entry Name:: 10, 12 to 14, UPPER HIGH STREET AND WALL TO LEFT OF NO. 10
Statutory Address 1:: 10, UPPER HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 2:: 12-14, UPPER HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 3:: WALL TO LEFT OF NO. 10, UPPER HIGH STREET

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:: 10, UPPER HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:: 12-14, UPPER HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:: WALL TO LEFT OF NO. 10, UPPER HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Taunton
National Grid Reference:: ST 22527 24155

Details

ST 2224 SE 11/409

UPPER HIGH STREET (South Side) No.10 and Nos. 12 to 14 (consec), Wall to left of No.10

GV II Range of four houses; Nos. 13 and 14 converted into restaurant. Circa late C18 or early C19. Brick, Nos.12-14 painted. Clay plain tile hipped roofs, Nos.10, 12 and 13 behind parapets; No.14 half-hipped. Brick side and axial stacks.

PLAN: Range of four one-, two- and three-bay houses; No. 10 three-bays with carriageway through right-hand bay. No. 11 not included.

EXTERIOR: Three storeys; No.14 on right two storeys. 3:1:1:2:2 north front. No.10 three-bays, tall twelve-pane sashes on first floor with continuous cill, nine-pane second floor sashes, centre blind, flat rubbed brick arches; ground floor sixteen-pane sash on left, carriageway on right with rubbed brick elliptical arch; doorway in wall on left with pilastered doorcase with open pediment, semi-circular fanlight with radiating glazing bars and fielded six-panel door. No.12 one-bay, four-pane sash on ground floor, canted first floor bay and sixteen-pane second floor sash, pilastered doorcase on left with pediment and fielded six-panel door. No.13 three-bays, tall twelve-pane sashes on first floor, nine-pane second floor sashes, small later C19 pilastered shop window and pilastered doorway on right with open pediment, semi-circular fanlight with intersecting glazing bars and C20 panelled door. No.14 on right, two-bays, tall twelve-pane sashes on first floor; ground floor tripartite sash with entablature and pilastered doorcase on left with open pediment, semi-circular fanlight with radiating tracery and six-panel door. Rear has various sashes, some with glazing bars, some replaced; C19 and C20 rear wings.

INTERIOR: Only Nos.13 and 14 inspected; now one property and ground floor a restaurant; all joinery replaced except for staircase balustrade from first to second floor with moulded handrail ramped up to turned column newels, balusters replaced. Roof structure of No.14 mostly rebuilt.

A range of four Georgian houses with group and townscape value near the centre of Taunton.

Listing NGR: ST2252724155

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Legacy System number:: 269942
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.