5, Upper High Street and wall to west

5, Upper High Street, Taunton, TA1 3PX

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1059949
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1975
List Entry Name:: 5, Upper High Street and wall to west
Statutory Address:: 5, Upper High Street, Taunton, TA1 3PX

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Date:: 2007-09-04
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1059949
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1975
List Entry Name:: 5, Upper High Street and wall to west
Statutory Address 1:: 5, Upper High Street, Taunton, TA1 3PX

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:: 5, Upper High Street, Taunton, TA1 3PX

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 22648 24177

Details

ST 2224 SE 11/406

UPPER HIGH STREET (South Side) No 5,and wall to west

GV II Long stucco house facing Vivary Park. Early C19. Two storeys plus basement. Slate roof. Plain pilasters. Gabled extension comes forward in centre of front. Five windows, sashes with glazing bars, some rectangular hoodmoulds. Two storey extension to west with single lights flanked by niches. Round headed doorway and wall with pilasters runs west along street to join No 6.

Nos 1 to 14 (consec) Upper High Street, the listed buildings in Vivary Park and Mount Street form a group together with the School, Unitarian Chapel, The Lawn and Mary Street House in Mary Street, and Wilton House and ornamental column in Hammets Walk.

Listing NGR: ST2264824177

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Legacy System number:: 269938
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.