Premises of Frome-selwood Building Society
PREMISES OF FROME-SELWOOD BUILDING SOCIETY, 3 MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173674
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Premises of Frome-selwood Building Society
- Statutory Address:
- PREMISES OF FROME-SELWOOD BUILDING SOCIETY, 3 MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173674
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Premises of Frome-selwood Building Society
- Statutory Address 1:
- PREMISES OF FROME-SELWOOD BUILDING SOCIETY, 3 MARKET PLACE
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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:
- PREMISES OF FROME-SELWOOD BUILDING SOCIETY, 3 MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Frome
- National Grid Reference:
- ST7761748019
Details
1.
5363
MARKET PLACE
(South-west side)
ST 7748 SE 5/399
No 3 (Premises of
Frome-Selwood
Building Society)
GV II
2.
Very important position at top of Market Place. 1860s appearance though possibly it
could be what was once Stuckeys Bank, which was built here 1835. 4½ storey
ornamental corner block. Elizabethan features. Ashlar with cornices over each
floor and moulded cill strings. Fluted end piers with floral caps. Cornice and
corniced parapet, end finials, gable over rounded attic window with 3 diagonally
placed finials. 3 storey 1 + 2 + 1 light oriel. Original ornamental shop front with
arched doorway to left and 2 windows, left-hand one framed by barley sugar colonettes
to base of oriel on which is pediment with armorial cartouche. Spandrels of door
and end pilasters have relief carving. 4 bay return to Stony Street with similar
treatment, paired windows above.
Listing NGR: ST7761748019
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 266250
- 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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