NOS 3 TO 6 AND ATTACHED WALLS

NOS 3 TO 6 AND ATTACHED WALLS, 3-6, VALETTA PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197419
Date first listed:: 16-Dec-1974
List Entry Name:: NOS 3 TO 6 AND ATTACHED WALLS
Statutory Address:: NOS 3 TO 6 AND ATTACHED WALLS, 3-6, VALETTA PLACE

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Date:: 2004-07-13
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197419
Date first listed:: 16-Dec-1974
List Entry Name:: NOS 3 TO 6 AND ATTACHED WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: NOS 3 TO 6 AND ATTACHED WALLS, 3-6, VALETTA PLACE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: NOS 3 TO 6 AND ATTACHED WALLS, 3-6, VALETTA PLACE

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 29917 37437

Details

BRIDGWATER

ST2937SE VALETTA PLACE 736-1/10/194 (North side) 16/12/74 Nos.3-6 (Consecutive) and attached walls

GV II

Terrace of 4 houses. Early/mid C19. Flemish-bond brick, plain tile roofs with brick stacks to party and end walls, stone parapet coping, cills and stepped voussoirs to flat arches. Double depth plans. Each house is 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. Nos 3 & 4 are stepped well forward and have curved corners; Nos 5 & 6 are connected by a serpentine curve. No.6 to the left has plate-glass sash windows without horns, a C20 door and a vertical joint between it and No.5, suggesting that it was added later. The other houses have 6/6-pane sash windows. No.5 has an early C19 six-panel door with looped cast-iron pendant knocker. No.4 has a late C19 door with 2 rows of 3 vertical panels. No.3 has a C20 door. Set into the parapet between Nos 3 & 4 is a plaque with VALETTA PLACE in raised iron letters. INTERIOR: No.3 has cast-iron grate to first floor. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Nos 3 & 4 have an English-bond brick front wall approx 1m high with bull-nose capping; to right rear of No.3 is a high limestone rubble wall. History: No.3 is said to have been occupied by a sea captain and the name of the terrace is drawn from his associations with Malta.

Listing NGR: ST2991737437

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Legacy System number:: 374011
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.