Pioneer House and Stringfellow and Attached Walls, Gate and Railings
PIONEER HOUSE AND STRINGFELLOW AND ATTACHED WALLS, GATE AND RAILINGS, 119 AND 121, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197469
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Pioneer House and Stringfellow and Attached Walls, Gate and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- PIONEER HOUSE AND STRINGFELLOW AND ATTACHED WALLS, GATE AND RAILINGS, 119 AND 121, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197469
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Pioneer House and Stringfellow and Attached Walls, Gate and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- PIONEER HOUSE AND STRINGFELLOW AND ATTACHED WALLS, GATE AND RAILINGS, 119 AND 121, HIGH 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:
- PIONEER HOUSE AND STRINGFELLOW AND ATTACHED WALLS, GATE AND RAILINGS, 119 AND 121, HIGH 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:
- ST3174408542
Details
CHARD
ST3108 HIGH STREET
756-1/3/114 (South side)
29/07/76 Nos.119 AND 121
Pioneer House and Stringfellow and
attached walls, gate and railings
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
(South side)
Nos.119 AND 121
Pioneer House and Stringfellow House)
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
Garden walls, gatepiers and gates at
Nos 119 and 121)
GV II
Two houses. C18. No.119 of limestone rubble with pantile roof.
No.121 was altered c1838; stucco, probably on limestone
rubble; painted stone plinth, archivolt, sills and cornice.
Swept slate roof with stone ridge. Brick stacks to gable ends.
Double-depth plan.
2 storeys. 3-window range to No.121; single-window range to
No.119: the street front has 6/6-pane sashes with forward
frames, the left return has C20 windows and door. No.121 has
doorway with elliptical head and fanlight set in a reeded
archivolt with keystone and imposts. To each side are mid C19
French windows with margin pane lights. First floor has a
blind window with a plaque above the door flanked by 6/6-pane
sash windows. A moulded cornice supports the gutter connected
to a lead hopperhead fixed to the facade of No.123 to the
right.
INTERIOR: much altered, but reeded cornices survive in the 2
front rooms, that to the left embellished with stiff-leaf in
1935 and a mid C19 black marble fireplace.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: rubblestone wall with stone coping
encloses front garden surmounted by cast-iron railings of
interlacing vertical oval design with finials; 2-leaf
cast-iron gates hung on stone piers with moulded dome; similar
piers at front corners.
HISTORY: circular plaque set in central blind window has the
inscription "Home of the late John Stringfellow, inventor of
the aeroplane"; he was the inventor of the first engine-driven
aeroplane which flew. His memorial at the cemetery in Zembard
Lane (qv) is also listed.
Listing NGR: ST3174408542
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 374142
- 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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