CAISSON HOUSE

CAISSON HOUSE, COURSE OF DISUSED SOMERSET COAL CANAL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1115371
Date first listed:: 24-Sep-1984
List Entry Name:: CAISSON HOUSE
Statutory Address:: CAISSON HOUSE, COURSE OF DISUSED SOMERSET COAL CANAL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1115371
Date first listed:: 24-Sep-1984
List Entry Name:: CAISSON HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: CAISSON HOUSE, COURSE OF DISUSED SOMERSET COAL CANAL

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:: CAISSON HOUSE, COURSE OF DISUSED SOMERSET COAL CANAL

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

District:: Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Combe Hay
National Grid Reference:: ST 74117 60352

Details

ST 76 SW COMBE HAY COURSE OF DISUSED SOMERSET COAL CANAL 8/28 Caisson House

GV II

House, possibly a remodelling of a row of earlier cottages. Circa 1830s, probably for the Somerset Coal Canal Company. Ashlar, C20 tiled roof behind a parapet which has pierced triangular cresting, moulded cornice. 2 storeys. 9 bays with pilaster strips at the ends and between bays 2 and 3, 4 and 5, 5 and 6, and 7 and 8, rising through the parapet as pedestals. Glazing bar sash windows in raised pain surrounds; canted bay windows to bays 3 and 7. Central door in projecting ashlar porch with moulded surround and cornice. The house is so named due to its proximity to the site of the 1790s caisson lock which was the initial and innovatory means of achieving the change in level on this branch of the canal.

Listing NGR: ST7411760352

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Legacy System number:: 32446
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.