22, TOWNSEND
22, TOWNSEND
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195191
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 22, TOWNSEND
- Statutory Address:
- 22, TOWNSEND
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195191
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 22, TOWNSEND
- Statutory Address 1:
- 22, TOWNSEND
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:
- 22, TOWNSEND
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 36921 14445
Details
ILMINSTER
ST3614 TOWNSEND 1939-1/7/135 (South side) 29/07/76 No.22
II
3 cottages, now a house. C17, extended to left in late C18. Rough ashlar and limestone rubble; steep pantile roof with exposed rafter-ends, higher to the right end block with stepped stone coping to gable ends and part of centre; tall brick stacks with stepped brick cornices to gable ends of the right-hand block and to the rear of the ridge of the left-hand block. C17 one-unit plan extended to 3-unit plan in late C18. EXTERIOR: 2-storeys; 4-window range with 3-light casements to the first floor, that to the left, C19 with 2 panes to each light, the others are C20 with small panes. The ground floor, which is below street level, has four C20 two-light casements with upper vents to the left; two C17 windows to the right with hollow-moulded mullions, 4-light to inside right and 3-light to far right, with continuous label moulds. The C17 right gable return has a tiny rectangular window to right-of-centre at attic-level, a 2-light mullioned window with a label mould to the first-floor centre, and a C20 window below. INTERIOR: This has evidence of once being 3 cottages, said to have been changed c1975. C17 cottage to right has a huge Moolham stone lintel to the open fireplace backing onto the party wall of the ground-floor room. To the right of the fireplace is a passage, probably gable entrance through the thick, previously outer wall of the middle cottage; the left-hand cottage retains an open fireplace backing onto the party wall and a newel staircase to its left. A passage has been knocked through to the central cottage, reducing the width of the fireplace, the lintel rests on the passage wall. All the cottages have chamfered beams; C17 exposed roof truss in the right-hand cottage with trenched purlins, the tenoned collar now removed and the ridge set diagonally in a notch in the apex. There is a well in the south-west corner of the kitchen.
Listing NGR: ST3692114445
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383497
- 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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