TIMBER FRAME OF TWO BAYS OF ALMSHOUSES IN GROUNDS OF THE CASTLE

TIMBER FRAME OF TWO BAYS OF ALMSHOUSES IN GROUNDS OF THE CASTLE, CASTLE GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1060076
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1975
List Entry Name:: TIMBER FRAME OF TWO BAYS OF ALMSHOUSES IN GROUNDS OF THE CASTLE
Statutory Address:: TIMBER FRAME OF TWO BAYS OF ALMSHOUSES IN GROUNDS OF THE CASTLE, CASTLE GREEN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1060076
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1975
List Entry Name:: TIMBER FRAME OF TWO BAYS OF ALMSHOUSES IN GROUNDS OF THE CASTLE
Statutory Address 1:: TIMBER FRAME OF TWO BAYS OF ALMSHOUSES IN GROUNDS OF THE CASTLE, CASTLE GREEN

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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Statutory Address:: TIMBER FRAME OF TWO BAYS OF ALMSHOUSES IN GROUNDS OF THE CASTLE, CASTLE GREEN

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Taunton
National Grid Reference:: ST2262724628

Details

ST 2224 NE CASTLE GREEN (North side)

744/9/4A Castle Green Timber frame of two bays of 04.07.75 Almshouses in grounds of the castle

GV II

Re-erected section of range of almshouses. Circa 1500. Timber-framed with restored [1992] wattle-and-daub infilling. Pitched tile roof with gabled ends. The 2 bays belonged to old almshouses in St James' Street which were demolished in 1897. Re-erected in former Castle moat in 1899 and dismantled and re-erected again on present site in 1992. The surviving timber framing is for 2 single room dwellings with doors and windows in both front and back walls. Boldly overhanging eaves framed on projecting brackets. The frame is thought to date from before 1500. AM. [All the listed buildings on Castle Green form a group together with Ina Cottage, Mill Lane.

Listing NGR: ST2262724628

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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.