PUBLIC HOUSE PUBLIC LIBRARY

PUBLIC HOUSE, BATH PLACE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1060039
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1975
List Entry Name:: PUBLIC HOUSE PUBLIC LIBRARY
Statutory Address:: PUBLIC HOUSE, BATH PLACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1060039
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1975
List Entry Name:: PUBLIC HOUSE PUBLIC LIBRARY
Statutory Address 1:: PUBLIC HOUSE, BATH PLACE
Statutory Address 2:: PUBLIC LIBRARY, CORPORATION 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: PUBLIC HOUSE, BATH PLACE
Statutory Address:: PUBLIC LIBRARY, CORPORATION 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 22622 24479

Details

1. CORPORATION STREET 5365 (South Side) Public Library ST 2224 SE 11/190

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2. 1904 by Colbourne, Little and Goodson, Extended 1913 in a similar style (see date stone to rear on Bath Place), Neo-Tudor style, 2 storeys red sand-stone with pale dressings. Parapet with central gable, diamond motifs suspended from capping. Some imitation corbelling, 3 main windows of 5 mullioned lights divided by smaller openings. Central oriel over entrance. Paired buttresses to ground floor. 5 light windows to left and right divided by single lights. Entrance with ogee moulded top and double wooden doors. Canted bay through both storeys to right. Extensions of 1911 also included.

All the listed buildings (except No 34 and the Dragon Book Shop and Wall) in Bath Place and Corporation Street form a group.

Listing NGR: ST2262224479

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Legacy System number:: 269667
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.