Flowers House With Adjacent Gate Piers
FLOWERS HOUSE WITH ADJACENT GATE PIERS, 15, HENDFORD HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173007
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Flowers House With Adjacent Gate Piers
- Statutory Address:
- FLOWERS HOUSE WITH ADJACENT GATE PIERS, 15, HENDFORD HOUSE
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- Date:
- 1999-09-21
- Reference:
- IOE01/00103/18
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173007
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Flowers House With Adjacent Gate Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- FLOWERS HOUSE WITH ADJACENT GATE PIERS, 15, HENDFORD HOUSE
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:
- FLOWERS HOUSE WITH ADJACENT GATE PIERS, 15, HENDFORD HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Yeovil
- National Grid Reference:
- ST5551115872
Details
ST5515NE
8/26
YEOVIL CP
HENDFORD HOUSE (East side)
No 15 (Flowers House)
(formerly No 8) with adjacent gate piers
-
GV II
Town House (now offices) of probably late C18. Local Stone cut and squared and
ashlar dressings, with Welsh slate roof between coped gables, having two end and
one off-centre stone chimney stacks. 3-storey facade of 5-bays, with central
doorway (three steps up); 5-panel door (the upper four glazed) in painted stone
surround, with shallow cornice mould hood supported by plainish console
brackets. Simple architraves to sashes at each level; ground floor windows have
lost their glazing bars: first and second flows have 12-pane windows. Stone
plinth (with modern cellar window to right-hand of doorway; stone band at second
floor level; simple cornice at top with low parapet wall over. Centre window
first floor has lugged and heeled architrave. Interior not seen. To left-hand of
house 2-capped stone gate piers flanking side entrance. (Formerly Henry Monk's
private grammar school in late C19, later home of Dr. Flower).
Listing NGR: ST5551115872
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261362
- 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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