172 and 174, Goldcroft Road
172 and 174, Goldcroft Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1172974
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 172 and 174, Goldcroft Road
- Statutory Address:
- 172 and 174, Goldcroft Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1172974
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 172 and 174, Goldcroft Road
- Statutory Address 1:
- 172 and 174, Goldcroft 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:
- 172 and 174, Goldcroft Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Yeovil
- National Grid Reference:
- ST5574416715
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 January 2025 to correct a typo in the Description and to reformat the text to current standards
ST551NE
2/22
YEOVIL CP
GOLDCROFT ROAD (East side)
Nos 172 & 174
II
Houses: pair semi-detached. 1925. Double 75mm concrete slab walls with 75mm cavity: steel roof arched frame, with bitumenised asbestos cement on steel roof: rendered-concrete stack. Semi-circular roof, carried down to a bell-mouth on the sides below first floor level. Plain doors toward the outsides of the pair, with small outer window alongside, and four-light casement windows in centres, with similar windows above. Similar rear elevation; kitchen and bathroom windows on the sides under the roof.
The interiors not seen.
A pair of semi-industrialised experimental cost-cutting houses by local architects Petter and Warren, based on the principles of Lt. Col. P.N. Nissen, D.S.O., R.E., used in the erection of the First World War Nissen Huts. Estimated to cost 350 pounds each, about 100 pounds cheaper than conventional 'non-parlour' houses of the day, they ended up at 513 pounds 11s, 7d each, and Yeovil Town Council built no more.
Listing NGR: ST5574416715
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261358
- 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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