Ditton House and Attached Walls, Gate Piers and Gates
DITTON HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES, 40, DITTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195036
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Ditton House and Attached Walls, Gate Piers and Gates
- Statutory Address:
- DITTON HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES, 40, DITTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195036
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Ditton House and Attached Walls, Gate Piers and Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- DITTON HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES, 40, DITTON STREET
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:
- DITTON HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES, 40, DITTON STREET
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 36109 14284
Details
ILMINSTER
ST3614 DITTON STREET 1939-1/7/28 (East side) 29/07/76 No.40 Ditton House and attached walls, gate piers and gates
GV II
House. c1720, internally remodelled in early C19. Ham Hill rubblestone with plain Ham Hill stone dressings; tarred slate roof to main house, pantile to rear wing, brick end stacks. 2-unit central-staircase plan with rear wing to right. 2 storeys; symmetrical 5-window range. 6-panel door under a semicircular fanlight with radial glazing bars and similar round-arched 6/6-pane sash window above, also one to the rear at turn of the stairs. All others are 6/6-pane sashes set in square-headed architraves with central stubs indicating the possibility of original cross windows. Rear wing, though of the same height, is 3 storeys, windows to second floor are horizontal sliding sashes. INTERIOR: Open-well open-string staircase with brackets and c1800 wreathed handrail and reeded balusters. Flagstones to hall floor. C19 marble fireplaces to both ground-floor rooms. Loft to main block, reached by steep narrow staircase, has wide oak floorboards and broken plaster on thatch, now slated and tarred over. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Attached to the house are early C19 high rubblestone walls, that to the right has a crenellated top and that to the left has a Ham Hill stone coping. Central double gates of long/short railings hang on cylindrical piers with shallow swept caps and flattened balls. Curving forward from them to join the side walls are low brick walls with stone capping on which are pointed railings alternating with low spikes, level with those on the gates.
Listing NGR: ST3610914284
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383391
- 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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