Bay House
BAY HOUSE, BAY HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195027
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Bay House
- Statutory Address:
- BAY HOUSE, BAY HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195027
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Bay House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BAY HOUSE, BAY HILL
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:
- BAY HOUSE, BAY HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ilminster
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 36542 14543
Details
ILMINSTER
ST3614 BAY HILL 1939-1/7/5 (South side) 29/07/76 Bay House
GV II
House, now guesthouse. c1840, altered c1880. Ham Hill stone ashlar, stepped stone copings to gabled slate roofs; brick stacks to gable ends of main c1840 house. E-shape plan. c1880 wing added to left, stepped slightly forward. 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range to c1840 front to right (west). Late C19 six-panel door and overlight with 2 glazing bars, flanked by 2-light casements with margin panes, the central panes having 4-centred arched tops, set in plain square-headed architraves. The gable end of the c1880 wing to the left (east) is one-window range with stepped stone copings to forward-facing gable; glazed slit window in the apex, a window to match the original ones to ground floor and an oriel window on a substantial corbel with a 2-light casement of the same design to first floor. Right return, facing west, is 4-window range, with labelled hoodmoulds, except 2 to first-floor right; those to the left on both floors are blind. Left return is 5-window range, rendered, with plain stone dressings. The rear has 3 gable ends. INTERIOR: Main building to right includes 6-panel doors and elliptical arches; flagstones to left front room, otherwise c1880 polychromatic tiled floor to hall, closed-string staircase with turned balusters. c1880 wing has 4-panel doors.
Listing NGR: ST3654214543
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383368
- 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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