40,42 AND 44, ST JAMES'S STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1188060
Date first listed:: 19-Apr-1961
List Entry Name:: 40,42 AND 44, ST JAMES'S STREET
Statutory Address:: 40,42 AND 44, ST JAMES'S STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1188060
Date first listed:: 19-Apr-1961
Date of most recent amendment:: 18-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: 40,42 AND 44, ST JAMES'S STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 40,42 AND 44, ST JAMES'S STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 40,42 AND 44, ST JAMES'S STREET

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District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: South Petherton
National Grid Reference:: ST 43222 17014

Details

SOUTH PETHERTON CP ST JAMES'S STREET (East side) ST4317 6/157 Nos 40, 42 and 44 (formerly listed as Nos 1, 2 and 3 Holbrook) 19.4.61

GV II

Row of 3 cottages, formerly one house. C15, C17, modified C19. Ham stone cut and squared, ashlar dressings, plain clay tiled roof over stone slate base courses with moulded coped gables; brick and stone chimney stacks. Two storeys, 4 bays irregular fenestration. No 44 to left, north, of range, of single bay: below, 4-light hollow-chamfer mullioned window with 4-centre arched lights having incised spandrils, in wave-mould recess with label; above C20 3-light window in added gabled dormer; to left chamfered cambered doorway with label and incised spandrils: on north gable two 3-light mullioned windows to match, and a small C20 window all with labels. No 42 also single- bay and possibly all C17: 4-light mullioned window below and 3-light above, both rectangular-leaded, the upper window set into gable crowned with circular stone chimney stack; to right in ovolo-mould cambered-arched doorway with label. No 40 has a 3- and a 2-light mullioned window above, without labels, and a 2- and a 4-light below; the 2-light shares a label with a C19 cambered chamfered-arched doorway: the 4-light is of earlier pattern, with deep returns to label. South gable has two 2-light windows with late C15/early C16 cinquefoil cusped lights, deep labels with headstops, and a later 2-light. Rear elevation obscured, but features gabled projection in centre. Interior not seen. Said to have been a parsonage, it may have extended further east; in C17 was known as Higher House, one substantial dwelling (VCH, Vol III, 1974).

Listing NGR: ST4322217014

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Sources

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Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1974)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.