Masonic Lodge (Nyanza Lodge)
MASONIC LODGE (NYANZA LODGE), BERRYMAN'S LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195030
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Masonic Lodge (Nyanza Lodge)
- Statutory Address:
- MASONIC LODGE (NYANZA LODGE), BERRYMAN'S LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195030
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Masonic Lodge (Nyanza Lodge)
- Statutory Address 1:
- MASONIC LODGE (NYANZA LODGE), 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:
- MASONIC LODGE (NYANZA LODGE), 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 35998 14675
Details
ILMINSTER
ST3414 BERRYMAN'S LANE 1939-1/6/8 (East side) 23/09/50 Masonic Lodge (Nyanza Lodge)
GV II
Formerly known as: Masonic Lodge (Nyanza Lodge) COURT BARTON. Masonic Lodge. Probably early C19, on old foundations. Large blocks of rough ashlar and coursed limestone rubble to the gable, probably Moolham stone, with pantile roof and brick stack to the left gable end of the main, older part facing south; Flemish-bond brick with a hipped slate roof to the rear single-story wing. L-shape plan. EXTERIOR: The main block is 2 storeys. 2-window range to the south front, the garden of which belongs to Abbot's Court. 2-light casement windows with glazing bars to the first floor, the ground floor has 2 wide segmental arches, that to the left with 4 fixed plate-glass panes between chamfered mullions; a 1950 door now fills that to the right. There is a similar arch to the right of that, in the adjoining Abbot's Court (qv). The main building is at a right-angle to the lane, facing which, on the left return (west), is an C18 Ham Hill stone Tuscan-style doorcase, re-positioned in 1913; the door is c1860, 4-panel with overlight. The brick rear wing, with a large boarded-up window, is connected by a wall, with a doorway under a stone lintel, to the next house to the north; the lintel and the quoin, are of Ham Hill stone. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: a high limestone rubble wall, with wooden planked gate close to the lodge, runs along the lane to the right, enclosing part of Abbot's Court (qv) garden and is included in that description. HISTORY: In 1858, Captain John Hanning Speke, of Dillington House and member of the lodge, contemporary of Burton, Stanley and Livingstone, in searching for the source of the Nile, claimed he had found it in Lake Nyanza and named it Victoria N'yanza.
Listing NGR: ST3599814675
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383372
- 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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