Ravensworth and Attached Walls and Railings
RAVENSWORTH AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, 30, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197451
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Ravensworth and Attached Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- RAVENSWORTH AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, 30, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197451
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Ravensworth and Attached Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAVENSWORTH AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, 30, FORE 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:
- RAVENSWORTH AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, 30, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chard Town
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 32298 08586
Details
CHARD
ST3308 FORE STREET 756-1/4/62 (South side) 24/03/50 No.30 Ravensworth and attached walls and railings (Formerly Listed as: FORE STREET (South side) No.30 Ravensworth)
GV II
House, now offices. c1850. Limestone ashlar with banded rustication; Ham Hill stone doorcase; hipped slate roof; limestone stacks. Double-depth plan. Classical style. 2 storeys, symmetrical 3-window range. Steps up to Tuscan doorcase with panelled reveals and wooden fanlight in an elliptical arch; 6-panel door. Above is a flat-arched 3/6-pane sash window. To either side are 2-storey wooden and canted bays on stone plinths; ground floor has 6/6-pane sash windows with moulded cornice; first floor has 3/6-pane sashes. Hipped, shallow pitch roof with wide eaves on brackets; ashlar stacks with cornice to return walls. INTERIOR: the central hall has an elliptical arch and 4 panelled pilasters below a cross-vaulted ceiling with an ornamental boss to the centre; the open-well, open-string staircase with turned balusters, fretted ends and wreathed handrail and curtail step, is to the left; the stair window to the left return is a semicircular-arched sash with margin panes. The cornices are reeded, those to the ground floor have late C19 added ornaments. The first floor has a white marble fireplace with an arch-plate register grate. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: iron forecourt railings, long/short spearhead style on low Ham Hill stone wall flanking door, each section with an elliptical plan. A distinctive villa design, one of an elegant pair with Nos 32A and 32B Fore Street (qv).
Listing NGR: ST3229608584
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 374090
- 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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