Gas Retort House, St Audrie's Holiday Centre
GAS RETORT HOUSE, ST AUDRIE'S HOLIDAY CENTRE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176001
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Gas Retort House, St Audrie's Holiday Centre
- Statutory Address:
- GAS RETORT HOUSE, ST AUDRIE'S HOLIDAY CENTRE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176001
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Gas Retort House, St Audrie's Holiday Centre
- Statutory Address 1:
- GAS RETORT HOUSE, ST AUDRIE'S HOLIDAY CENTRE
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:
- GAS RETORT HOUSE, ST AUDRIE'S HOLIDAY CENTRE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- West Quantoxhead
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 10404 42808
Details
ST14SW WEST QUANTOXHEAD CP
5/208 Gas Retort House, St. Audries Holiday Centre
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GV II
Gas retort house, now agricultural building. Circa 1855. Architect probably John Norton. Sampford Brett red sandstone random rubble, brick and Bath stone dressings, double Roman tiled roof, louvred hood centre left, square brick stack rising from stone base in South East corner. L-plan, 2 cell block lying East - West, single cell North wing. Gothic style. Single storey, 1:2 bays; gabled North wing unglazed rose window, right return segmental doorway damaged right jamb, no doors, North front segmental headed long 2-light casements partly boarded, outer bays left and right centre segmental headed stable door, damaged rectangular light above to right, segmental headed double doors similar right. Right return, (West) fronting remains of gas holder (qv), a quatrefoil opening in gable end, 2-light segmental headed mullioned window, wooden cusped tracery heads. Interior: left hand room, at time of survey, (October 1983) has only a small segmental headed opening into chimney visible, louvred opening in roof in poor condition; to left, any surviving features obscured by agricultural machinery. This gas retort house was built to supply St. Audries, now a school (qv), and is one of the earliest estate gasworks, Welsh coal for the gasworks was landed at the quay, now vanished, at the end of the slip (qv) about half a mile to the forth, Listed primarily for historic interest. In poor condition at time of-survey, (October 1983). (VCH Somerset, Vol.5 forthcoming; Sirouard, The Victorian Country House, 1979).
Listing NGR: ST1040442808
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265278
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Girouard, M, The Victorian Country House, (1971)
Dunning, R W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1985)
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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