Abbot's Court and Attached Walls and Gate Piers
ABBOT'S COURT AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATE PIERS, BERRYMAN'S LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195029
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Abbot's Court and Attached Walls and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address:
- ABBOT'S COURT AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATE PIERS, BERRYMAN'S LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195029
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Abbot's Court and Attached Walls and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBOT'S COURT AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATE PIERS, BERRYMAN'S LANE
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:
- ABBOT'S COURT AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATE PIERS, BERRYMAN'S LANE
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 36015 14671
Details
ILMINSTER
ST3614 BERRYMAN'S LANE 1939-1/7/7 (East side) 23/09/50 Abbot's Court and attached walls and gate piers
GV II
Formerly known as: Abbot's Court COURT BARTON. House. C17, refronted and altered in C19 and 1950. Squared and coursed limestone rubble with thatched roof to the front, pantile to the rear; brick stacks to gable ends and centre of rear. 3-unit plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 5-window range. Roof raised in C19, and the original wall-plate has mortices to former mullions in the soffit, above, but not coinciding with, C19 three-light casements. The wall above the 2 ranges to right has been raised further, forming a step in the line of the eaves, and there are wrought-iron brackets to a former gutter along the whole facade. The 2 windows to first-floor right are taller 2-light casements. C20 door to the inside right, under a trellised porch with a hipped lead roof in the style of c1840, though in fact reconstructed in 1950. Flanking the door are C20 6/6-pane sashes, one to the right and 2 to the left under reconstructed stone lintels. To far left is a C19 three-light window with chamfered stone mullions and cast-iron frames with small panes, similar to those in the former grammar school, now No.28 Court Barton (qv), under a segmental relieving arch. To the left of that, in the adjoining Masonic Lodge (qv), are 2 similarly-shaped windows, one now of fixed plate-glass, and the other has a 1950 door inserted. The rear is essentially c1950. INTERIOR: Passage and lower room to right have blue lias flagstone floors, room to left, separated by a timbered lath-and-plaster wall, has 2 chamfered beams and a large C17 fireplace in the rear right corner, with an oak Tudor-arch lintel. Otherwise interior mainly of C19 character, with a marble fireplace to the right-hand room, staircase with stick balusters and turned newel, and 6-panel doors. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: A high limestone rubble wall, attached to the Masonic Lodge (qv), running 20m south to tall C19 gate piers at the entrance to a C19 coach house (not included), encloses the garden to the south, and attaches to the south-east corner of Abbot's Court. Attached to the north-east corner is a high C18 Flemish-bond brick wall which runs northward and attaches to No.56 High Street (qv).
Listing NGR: ST3601514671
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383371
- 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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