Hobbswell, Forecourt Wall, Gate Piers and Garden Room
HOBBSWELL, FORECOURT WALL, GATE PIERS AND GARDEN ROOM, KENT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173678
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Hobbswell, Forecourt Wall, Gate Piers and Garden Room
- Statutory Address:
- HOBBSWELL, FORECOURT WALL, GATE PIERS AND GARDEN ROOM, KENT STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173678
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Hobbswell, Forecourt Wall, Gate Piers and Garden Room
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOBBSWELL, FORECOURT WALL, GATE PIERS AND GARDEN ROOM, KENT 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:
- HOBBSWELL, FORECOURT WALL, GATE PIERS AND GARDEN ROOM, KENT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cheddar
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 45641 54058
Details
ST45SE CHEDDAR CP KENT STREET (North side)
6/127 Hobbswell, forecourt wall, gate piers and garden room
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- II
House, Early C19. Roughcast, wide bracketted eaves, slate roof, brick stacks. Symmetrical, 2 storeys, 3 bays, 12-pane sash windows to first floor, 8-pane french windows to ground floor with marginal lights. Central door opening, 10-panel led door, top 7 panels glazed, fanlight with radiating glazing bars. Single storey outshut set back to left, parapet with coping, pair of french windows in conforming style. Single storey outshut to right, parapet with coping, pair of french windows on conforming style with a window to each side, Interior with co-eval features including a well type staircase with a moulded handrail on stick balustars, moulded tread brackets; 6-panelled doors in fluted surrounds to ground floor, hall with decorative plaster cornice and ceiling centre. Forecourt wall capped with random tufa, pair of gate piers in conforming style to left, tufa caps, pair of decorative wrought iron gates; wall incorporates a small rubble garden room at its right end.
Listing NGR: ST4564154058
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 268781
- 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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