Court House
Court House, Old Weston Road, Flax Bourton, BS48 1UL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129837
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Court House
- Statutory Address:
- Court House, Old Weston Road, Flax Bourton, BS48 1UL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129837
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Court House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Court House, Old Weston Road, Flax Bourton, BS48 1UL
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:
- Court House, Old Weston Road, Flax Bourton, BS48 1UL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Flax Bourton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 51901 69576
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19 April 2024 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards
ST 56 NW
7/153
OLD WESTON ROAD (north-west side)
Court House
(Formerly listed as Long Ashton Magistrate's Court)
G.V.
II
Magistrate's Court and Police Station at time of listing. 1857-58 by John Norton. Coursed rubble with freestone dressings; double Roman tiled roof; panelled ashlar stacks. In a late Gothic style. Single storey and attics in gabled half dormers. 1:4:1 bays: the outer bays are advanced as two storey gabled wings with, on the ground floor, three-light cross windows in chamfered mullions and surrounds and three-light windows with shouldered segmental heads on first floor, all under relieving arches. The centre bays have similar but two-light windows. Central gabled porch with side buttresses; pointed doorway under a hoodmould; lean-to porches in re-entrant angles with wings.
Listing NGR: ST5190169576
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 33479
- 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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