The Island House

The Island House, 11, The Island, Midsomer Norton, BA3 2DZ

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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:: The Island House, 11, The Island, Midsomer Norton, BA3 2DZ

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Official list entry

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

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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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

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Legacy System number:: 31952
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.