FULLANDS HOUSE

FULLANDS HOUSE, SHOREDITCH ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1060364
Date first listed:: 02-Sep-1985
List Entry Name:: FULLANDS HOUSE
Statutory Address:: FULLANDS HOUSE, SHOREDITCH ROAD

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Date:: 2002-09-17
Reference:: IOE01/08925/11
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1060364
Date first listed:: 02-Sep-1985
List Entry Name:: FULLANDS HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: FULLANDS HOUSE, SHOREDITCH ROAD

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:: FULLANDS HOUSE, SHOREDITCH ROAD

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Taunton
National Grid Reference:: ST2376923003

Details

ST22SW 4/125 2.9.85

STOKE ST MARY CP SHOREDITCH ROAD (West side) Fullands House II

House, now residential accommodation for school. 1810-12 on site of earlier dwelling for William Russell, partly demolished late C19-early C20 and internally altered. Roughcast over rubble, moulded cornice, hipped asbestos slate roof, gable end to demolished wing, brick stacks. Plan: originally T-plan, north wing mostly demolished, service wing west end, entrance on north front. East front: 3 storeys, 3 bays, all 16-pane sash windows apart from 12-pane windows first and second floors centre, obscured by metal fire escape. North front: 3 storeys, 4:1 bays, end bay left over entrance unlit, otherwise 16-pane sash windows, 12-pane above entrance, inserted C20 door to left of entrance, lead roofed, wooden Doric porch with 6-panel double doors and moulded architrave. Interior: extensively altered. Reproduction of an early C19 engraving in possession of the occupants shows canted north wing with single storey verandah on east side. The property by then known as Fullands School and between 1843 and 1848 the future General Gordon of Kartoum was a pupil here. "It is not exaggeration to state that Somerset County Cricket was founded at Fullands", Robin Bush. The property was purchased by King's College School in 1946. (Bromwich, King's College Taunton, 1980; Bush, The Story of Fullands, unpublished SRO, 1985).

Listing NGR: ST2376923003

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Legacy System number:: 270914
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Bromwich, , Kings College Taunton, (1980)
Bush, R, The Story of Fullands, (1985)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.