9-12, HAMMET STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1060037
Date first listed:: 04-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:: 9-12, HAMMET STREET
Statutory Address:: 9-12, HAMMET STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1060037
Date first listed:: 04-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:: 9-12, HAMMET STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 9-12, HAMMET 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:: 9-12, HAMMET 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 22823 24568

Details

1. HAMMET STREET 5365 (South Side) Nos 9 to 12 (consec) ST 2224 NE 9/88 4.6.52.

II*

2. Terrace of 3 storey 5 window brown brick fronts. 1788-9O when the street was laid out by Sir Benjamin Hammet (MP for Taunton, Keeper of the Castle etc). The properties are divided by plain pilasters. Continuous eaves cornice. Old tile roofs. Sash windows in plain reveals, some glazing bars missing. Painted stone doorcases with half round Tuscan pilasters, open pediments and traceried fanlights. 6-panel doors (4 panels to No 9: no pane's to No 10 ). 2 small shop windows inserted in No 9. Insurance plaque to No 12. Side of No 9 has 3 windows and forms tort of the west side of Church Square.

All the listed buildings in Hammet Street together with St Mary Magdalene Church and the listed buildings in Church Square form an extremely important group.

Listing NGR: ST2284124574

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Legacy System number:: 269756
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.