2, LOWER STREET
2, LOWER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175568
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 2, LOWER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 2, LOWER STREET
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- Date:
- 2002-10-04
- Reference:
- IOE01/08916/31
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175568
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 2, LOWER STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, LOWER 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:
- 2, LOWER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Merriott
- National Grid Reference:
- ST4432512206
Details
ST4412 MERRIOTT CP LOWER STREET (South side)
9/131
No 2
GV II
Detached farmhouse, apparently divided at one time. Early C18, modified and extended in C19. Ham stone near-ashlar
facade, coursed rubble to sides and rear; Welsh slate roof to steep pitch between coped gables, stepped at east end;
brick chimney stacks. Two storeys with attic, 4 bays, of which bays 1 and 2 are of later date. Sash windows in plain
openings having voussoired flat arches, 6-pane to first floor bays 1 and 4, 20-pane first floor bay 2 and 9-pane first
floor bay 3; to ground floor, 4-pane bays 1 and 2, with angled flat-roofed bay of 2+4+2 panes bay 4. To left of bay 3 a
doorway in flat arched recess with double ogee-mould surround, C20 boarded door, with stone bollard set to right.
Continuous string to bays 3 and 4, stepped down over doorway. To left of doorway a C20 circular window set in a
now-blocked doorway: indications of earlier window lower bay 1, also blocked opening under the upper bay 3 window. Two
oval windows in west gable, one at attic level and one at mezzanine level. Extension to rear, of later date, probably
C19. Against east gable a long single-storey building with double Roman clay tiled roof, and with central throughway:
collar truss roof of C19. Interior not seen.
Listing NGR: ST4432512206
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262381
- 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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