Cobden Terrace
COBDEN TERRACE, 20-58, WILFRID ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176243
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Cobden Terrace
- Statutory Address:
- COBDEN TERRACE, 20-58, WILFRID ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176243
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Cobden Terrace
- Statutory Address 1:
- COBDEN TERRACE, 20-58, WILFRID ROAD
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:
- COBDEN TERRACE, 20-58, WILFRID ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Street
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 48583 36638
Details
STREET CP WILFRID ROAD (South side) ST43NE
10/94 Nos 20 to 58 (even) (Cobden Terrace) -
GV II
Terrace of workers housing. Central stone plaque:- "Cobden Terrace Anno 1889 Domini"; by G. J. Skipper for William S. Clark; builder James Pursey of Street. Squared rubble, irregularly coursed; double Roman tile roof; large red brick stacks with oversailing courses, singly, paired and in groups of 4, coped verges with kneelers; large central cupola with arcaded glazing and an ogee-shaped lead roof with weathervane at its apex. Elaborate Jacobean style, irregular frontage, symmetrical about its centre. Two storeys, 2:3:1:3:1:1:1:1:1:3:1:3:2 bays; first, third, fifth, ninth, eleventh and thirteenth bay sets in projecting wings under front facing gables; predominantly 4, 5 and 6-light stone-mullioned windows with metal casements, under stopped labels, especially to the projecting wings; further 3-light casements, those to the ground floor with cambered heads; single-light opening in a dressed stone surround to each gable face. Centre 3 bays with the greatest enrichment, the outer pair on the first floor with gablets, 2-light mullioned window to centre. Door openings with irregular treatment; Nos 20, 28, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 50 and 58 with recessed doors in chamfered 4-centred head stone surround; Nos 22, 24, 26, 30, 32, 46, 48, 52, 54 and 56 with projecting hipped and gabled tile porches on open timber supports and rubble plinths; simple plank doors. Central throughway with a chamfered dressed stone opening with a 4-centred head. Left return with a projecting gable, 2, 3 and 4- light stone-mullioned windows under stopped labels. predominantly 3-light casements to rear in conforming style to those on main elevation. Erected during a major expansion of the shoe industry in Street; the great attention to detail and the spacious planning give this part of the town the atmosphere of a garden suburb. Group value with 2 corresponding terraces on the north side of Wilfrid Road, Lawson Terrace (qv), and Wilfrid Terrace (qv). (McGarvie M. Guide to Historic Street, unpublished).
Listing NGR: ST4858336638
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 267803
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
McGarvie, M, Guide to Historic Street, ()
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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