Municipal Building (West End) Municipal Buildings (East End) (Incorporating the Old Grammar School)
MUNICIPAL BUILDING (WEST END), CORPORATION STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1060041
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Municipal Building (West End) Municipal Buildings (East End) (Incorporating the Old Grammar School)
- Statutory Address:
- MUNICIPAL BUILDING (WEST END), CORPORATION STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1060041
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Municipal Building (West End) Municipal Buildings (East End) (Incorporating the Old Grammar School)
- Statutory Address 1:
- MUNICIPAL BUILDING (WEST END), CORPORATION STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS (EAST END) (INCORPORATING THE OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL), CORPORATION STREET
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:
- MUNICIPAL BUILDING (WEST END), CORPORATION STREET
- Statutory Address:
- MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS (EAST END) (INCORPORATING THE OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL), 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 22623 24522
Details
1. CORPORATION STREET 5365 (North Side) 4.6.52. Municipal Buildings (East End) (incorporating The Old Grammar School) Municipal Building (West End) ST 2224 NE 9/16
II* GV
2. A large building with 2 main parts set on a terrace above the road. The east end was a Grammar School built about 1480, probably refounded by Bishop Fox of Winchester 1522, and improved by Roger Hill, a merchant of Taunton who died in 1544. This part has rubble walls with ashlar dressings. 5-light mullioned and transomed windows without dripmoulds are divided by buttresses. Decayed heraldic device in east wall. Inside is a hall of 4 bays, much restored, but retaining its open timber roof. The Old Grammar School is a scheduled AM. 2 storey western extensions were carried out in 1902, the whole building having a continuous slate roof. Similar Tudor style with plain mullioned windows, but with gablets rising into roof. Picturesque square wooden bellcote. Leaded lights to windows. 3 storey battlemented tower comes forward at west end,
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: ST2262324522
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 269671
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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