14, CASTLE STREET
14, CASTLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1197365
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 14, CASTLE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 14, CASTLE STREET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1197365
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 14, CASTLE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 14, CASTLE 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:
- 14, CASTLE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bridgwater
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 29914 37190
Details
BRIDGWATER
ST2937SE CASTLE STREET 736-1/10/28 (North side) 24/03/50 No.14 (Formerly Listed as: CASTLE STREET (North side) Nos.6-14 (Even) No.16)
GV I
House, now offices. 1723-8. For James Brydges, Duke of Chandos. By Benjamin Holloway or Fort and Shepherd, the Duke's London surveyors. Remodelled internally late C18. Red and yellow Flemish-bond brick, moulded stone coping to the parapet, cornice, architraves and doorcase, plain tile roof with brick stacks to gable ends of house, zig-zag tiles to roof of rear wing which is hipped to rear. Double-depth plan with 2-storey rear wing to right. 3 storeys; symmetrical 5-window range. Substantial cornice beneath parapet. Segmental-arched moulded architraves with plain cills and moulded brackets to 6/6-pane sash windows, those to ground floor have plate glass to the lower sashes. 3 semi-elliptical shaped steps lead up to tall 6-panel door with added moulding to the upper panels and beaded moulding to the base set in a moulded architrave with a keystone. The doorcase has a shallow hood with a dentilled cornice and pulvinated frieze supported by Corinthian pilasters. To the right are 2 segmental brick arches to cellar and one to the left, a fourth probably obscured by the raised street level. Early C18 sash with thick glazing bars to rear. INTERIOR: To right of central hall, which has late C18 reeded cornice, is a late C18 open-well, open-string staircase with stick balusters, fretted ends, turned newels and a wreathed mahogany handrail and curtail step. 4-panel early C18 door to base of stairs is set in a late C18 architrave with a fluted pilaster below the dado rail. Stairs to second floor are early C18 closed string with a turned newel and moulded rail. Room to right of first-floor front has full-height raised and fielded panelling. Some early C18 raised and fielded 2-panel doors survive on second floor. The terraces of houses in Castle Street form an important group, unusual for their scale and ambition outside London's West End. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: South and West Somerset: London: 1958-: 100; Colvin H: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1660-1840: London: 1978-: 428; VCH: Somerset: London: 1992-: 200).
Listing NGR: ST2991437190
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373844
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958), 100
Dunning, R W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1992), 200
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 428
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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