The Rising Sun
THE RISING SUN, KNAPP, NORTH CURRY, TAUNTON, TA3 6BG
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060417
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Rising Sun
- Statutory Address:
- THE RISING SUN, KNAPP, NORTH CURRY, TAUNTON, TA3 6BG
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060417
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Rising Sun
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE RISING SUN, KNAPP, NORTH CURRY, TAUNTON, TA3 6BG
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:
- THE RISING SUN, KNAPP, NORTH CURRY, TAUNTON, TA3 6BG
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- North Curry
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 30446 25657
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19/09/2017
ST3025
10/56
NORTH CURRY CP
KNAPP
The Rising Sun
(Formerly listed as The Rising Sun Inn)
GV
II
Farmhouse, now inn. C16, enlarged C17, altered aid C20. Slobbered rubble, upper courses of painted brick, double Roman tiled roof, brick stacks left gable end and to right of cross passage.
Plan three cell and cross passage set on plinth high above the roadway, outshot extensions at rear.
Two storeys, three bays, all C20 wooden casements, entrance between first and second bays left, large raking buttress with inserted doorway to right, C20 single storey lean-to addition beyond, entrance approached by flight of steps, half glazed inner door.
Interior: stud and panel screen left of cross passage, chamfered beads with scroll stops, as has the fireplace lintel with bread oven adjoining, right of cross passage plinth to hall stack continued to rear wall, fine moulded 12-panel compartment ceiling, with moulded lintel to fireplace and moulded stone jambs, chamfered stud and panel screen, partially cut, separating featureless inner room. Upper storey not seen.
(VAG Report, unpublished SRO, December 1982).
Listing NGR: ST3044625657
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 270840
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in December, (1982)
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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