The Island House
The Island House, 11, The Island, Midsomer Norton, BA3 2DZ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1115170
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Island House
- Statutory Address:
- The Island House, 11, The Island, Midsomer Norton, BA3 2DZ
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1115170
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Island House
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Island House, 11, The Island, Midsomer Norton, BA3 2DZ
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 Island House, 11, The Island, Midsomer Norton, BA3 2DZ
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:
- ST6628854097
Details
This list entry was subjected to a Minor Enhancement to update text, name and address on the 23 September 2021
ST 6654
4/2C
Midsomer Norton
THE ISLAND
No 11 (The Island House)
19.5.50
GV
II
House, early to mid C18 with extensions in the C19 and C20. Converted to offices.
MATERIALS: of coursed and dressed red sandstone rubble construction with limestone features, and dressings. These include ashlar quoins, a plain band at first floor level and a coved eaves cornice. The building has a slate roof and there are three chimneys, (only one of which is original), with moulded capping but these have been completely altered.
PLAN: a double-pile plan with a two-storey, C19 extension to the north and a C20, single-storey extension to the south.
EXTERIOR: two and a half storeys with an M-shaped roof and a gable-lit attic. The C18 building is three windows wide, the outer windows are in pairs with a plain architrave surround and centre mullion. To the centre of the first floor there is a Venetian window with a keystone. All the sash windows to this part of the building have thick glazing bars. Beneath the Venetian window is a modern central door in an architrave surround with a moulded flat hood on cut stone brackets. There is a later two storey, C19 extension to the north and a C20, single storey extension to the south.
INTERIOR: the interior is now quite altered and modernised.
The front boundary wall is separately listed at Grade II.
References:
The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Foyle A: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 2011-: 560.
Listing NGR: ST6628854097
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 31952
- 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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