Medwyn House and Front Boundary Wall and Railings
MEDWYN HOUSE AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS, BROAD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177152
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Medwyn House and Front Boundary Wall and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- MEDWYN HOUSE AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS, BROAD STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177152
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Medwyn House and Front Boundary Wall and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- MEDWYN HOUSE AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS, BROAD STREET
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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:
- MEDWYN HOUSE AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS, BROAD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Somerton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 49121 28634
Details
ST49NW SOMERTON CP BROAD STREET (East side)
9/138 Medwyn House (formerly listed as Medwyn) and front boundary wall and railings 17.4.59
GV II
House in row. C17 origins, modified later C18. Local lias stone cut and squared, Ham stone dressings; Welsh slate roof over stone slate base courses; stone chimney stack to coped north gable. Two storeys, 2 bays. Paired 12-pane sash windows with hood moulds, probably trimmed labels from earlier windows; to lower bay 2 a cambered arched doorway with incised spandrils and moulded jambs, and above a C20 small concrete hood on brackets. Interior not seen, but VCH speaks of a long wing to the rear; room at east end has open fireplace adjoining a spiral staircase and smoke chamber; in an upper room a decorative plaster frieze of late C16/early C17, and some reset panelling dated 1623 in the entrance passage; a fine overmantel said to have come from this house now at the Old Parsonage, Parsonage Hill (qv). 1 metre in front of house, stone wall about 750mm high, with Ham stone copings and gabletted capped piers, with cast iron railings having quatrefoil motif, and matching gate, adding to setting of house. Formerly one house with Stocker's House (qv), attached to south. (VCH, Volume III, 1974).
Listing NGR: ST4912128634
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262943
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1974)
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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