High Littleton House
HIGH LITTLETON HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1136525
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- High Littleton House
- Statutory Address:
- HIGH LITTLETON HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1136525
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- High Littleton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGH LITTLETON HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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:
- HIGH LITTLETON HOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- High Littleton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 64592 57984
Details
ST 65 NW HIGH LITTLETON HIGH STREET (east side)
6/75 High Littleton House 21.9.60 II
House. Circa 1710 with early C19 service addition and alterations. Squared, dressed and coursed stone to north facade, ashlar to south front, irregular coursed rubble to side walls. Freestone dressings, copings, quoins, slate roof. 3 storeys and basement, 5 bay north front with 1 storey left hand service addition. Basement has keyed oculi either side of central door and cross mullioned windows with segmental heads. Similar cross mullions with leaded pane glazing to all 3 storeys but those in the top storey have straight heads. Central doorway with moulded architrave and triple keyed head. Stone doorcase with Ionic pilasters, pulvinated frieze and entablature which develops into string course. 8 panel 2-leaf door with top 4 panels glazed. Chamfered and rusticated quoins, moulded string courses and cornice. Stone balustrade enclosing basement area returned to walls at each end. Double span roof with end stone stacks. Early C19 south front with 12 x 6 pane sashes to ground floor, 6 pane sashes to lst floor and 3 segmental headed dormers. Central Tuscan Doric porch, glazed door. Interior. Ground floor right hand room has 1 raised and fielded panel wall. Circa 1710 staircase with ramped handrail and thin balusters possibly resited. (Pevsner, Buildings of England : North Somerset and Bristol, 1958).
Listing NGR: ST6459257984
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 32815
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958)
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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