Watch House, Retaining Walls to the River and Garage
WATCH HOUSE, RETAINING WALLS TO THE RIVER AND GARAGE, WATCH HOUSE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129831
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Watch House, Retaining Walls to the River and Garage
- Statutory Address:
- WATCH HOUSE, RETAINING WALLS TO THE RIVER AND GARAGE, WATCH HOUSE ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129831
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Watch House, Retaining Walls to the River and Garage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATCH HOUSE, RETAINING WALLS TO THE RIVER AND GARAGE, WATCH HOUSE ROAD
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:
- WATCH HOUSE, RETAINING WALLS TO THE RIVER AND GARAGE, WATCH HOUSE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Pill and Easton-in-Gordano
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 52633 76082
Details
ST 57 NW EASTON-IN-GORDANO WATCH HOUSE ROAD (north end)
2/72 Watch House, Retaining Walls to the River and Garage G.V. II
Customs house, now a private house, retaining walls to the river and former boathouse, now a garage. Dated 1850. Rubble; hipped slate roof; coursed rubble stacks. Single storey on battered, dressed ashlar plinth to riverside. The north-east (riverside) elevation has 1:3:1 bays, the outer ones are advanced as wings under hipped roofs and with quoins; glazing bar sash windows in dressed stone surrounds with cills on brackets; outer bays have tripartite windows. The battered plinth returns for approximately 5 yards to the south-east as a retaining wall for the garden. The south-west (land) elevation is L-plan: 3 bays, glazing bar sash windows in dressed stone surrounds with cills on brackets. Panelled door in projecting porch in re-entrant angle; further panelled door (formerly to the customs office) in projecting porch on north-west gable. One yard to the south-east is the former boathouse, now a garage; rubble with dressed ashlar quoins and voussoirs, hipped slate roof; segmental headed doorway at north-west end.
Listing NGR: ST5263376082
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 33467
- 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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