Midsomer Norton Bath and North East Somerset Council Offices
The Hollies, High Street, BA3 2DP
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1115164
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Midsomer Norton Bath and North East Somerset Council Offices
- Statutory Address:
- The Hollies, High Street, BA3 2DP
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1115164
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Midsomer Norton Bath and North East Somerset Council Offices
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Hollies, High Street, BA3 2DP
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 Hollies, High Street, BA3 2DP
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Midsomer Norton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST6647254206
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 21 September 2021 to update name and address and description, add a reference to selected sources and to reformat the text to current standards
ST 6654
4/14
Midsomer Norton
HIGH STREET (north side)
The Hollies
Midsomer Norton Bath and North East Somerset Council
(Formerly listed as No 19 (Council Offices))
19.5.50
GV
II*
A house, now offices, of mid-late C18 date, in the Palladian style.
MATERIALS: the building is of ashlar construction with a slate roof, it has ashlar chimney stacks with moulded caps at the gable ends.
EXTERIOR: the building comprises of three storeys and a basement. It is five windows wide and has glazing bar sash windows in rusticated surrounds; those to ground and first floor are six-over-six panes and those to the second floor have three-over-three panes.
To the centre is a square-headed doorway, with a Gibbs surround and a moulded open pediment on brackets; it has four steps which lead up to a later half-glazed six-panel door.
The front elevation has a plinth, rusticated angle pilasters (French quoins), a moulded cornice and a plain parapet. There is a lead rain-water pipe with a conical rain-water head to the left hand (west) gable.
There is a top-lit, single- storey, library wing, to the left which dates to around 1900, this has four pairs of arched windows.
The rear of the building has a central stair gable (this is a late survival) and a long two storey rendered and tiled outer wing to the left. There is a large 1980s extension connected to the rear.
There are local stone quadrant walls to the High Street which have a wrought iron overthrow with the lettering "Norton-Radstock Urban District Council".
INTERIOR: the interior of the building retains a number of original features including cornices and moulded plaster panels. There is a fine mid-C18 staircase and a good early C18 doorcase (now enclosed by a later lobby to the rear) with an architrave surround, carved brackets and an enriched Vitruvian scroll frieze.
HISTORY: this building was originally called the 'Mansion House' or the 'Grey House' and was a private residence set in 10 acres of park land. In 1937 it was sold it to Norton Radstock Urban District Council. It is similar to work by the Patys (architect/builders in Bristol).
Listing NGR: ST6647254206
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 31946
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Foyle, A, Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (2011), 560
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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