Townsend House
TOWNSEND HOUSE, 40, EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203001
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Townsend House
- Statutory Address:
- TOWNSEND HOUSE, 40, EAST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203001
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Townsend House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWNSEND HOUSE, 40, EAST 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:
- TOWNSEND HOUSE, 40, EAST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Crewkerne
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 44490 09862
Details
CREWKERNE
ST4409 EAST STREET 876-1/7/71 (South side) 12/06/50 No.40 Townsend House
II
House. C17 origins but mostly early C18. MATERIALS: roughcast front over limestone rubble with Ham Hill stone dressings, double Roman tile roof with stone coping, and rendered stacks to left gable end and to lateral stack to right-of-centre. PLAN: originally 1-unit plan, extended to the right with 2 units and two gable wings to the rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3-window range. All windows have hollow-moulded stone mullions, except for a C20 inserted 2-light window above the door; those to the ground-floor have label moulds. To the inside-right is a lateral stack, off-set above eaves-level, flanked by 3-light leaded casements; to the far left is a 2-light casement to the first-floor, and a 4-light casement below. The door, to the right of it, is set in an C18 Tuscan-style doorcase with flat hood and panelled reveals. The right return has a 2-light mullioned window in the centre of the gable, and 6/6-pane sashes to both floors, that to the ground floor being C20 with horns. The rear elevation has a C17 two-light mullioned window with label mould to first-floor right; a small pointed-arched window to the right-of-centre, both with C20 glazing; an C18 semi-circular arched stair window with margin panes to the centre; to the left are two gables with moulded string courses above hoodmoulds to C17 stone mullioned windows, 3-light to the left, 2-light to the right and a 2-light stair window between; one light to the right ground-floor window has late C17 leaded glass. INTERIOR: attic, though re-roofed, has original trusses with trenched purlins, one purlin to each side of the gabled wings, and two to the main block. The ridge is notch-in-apex. The room to the left has axial beams with run-out chamfers, open fireplace with oak lintel to the gable end, a newel stair in the corner to the left, which originally extended to the attic, now only to the first-floor, with an oval stairlight to the left return, and large stone flags to the floor. The central room has a quartered ceiling, the beams of which were plastered over c1820, and a corner fireplace with a limestone lintel; the beams have ogee-stopped chamfers. The room to the right also has a corner fireplace with C18 wooden surround. Both fireplaces to the right end are served by the lateral stack. The first-floor has mostly early C18 two-panel doors with rimlocks, some pine plank-and-muntin type walls with ovolo moulding, and some late C18 doors.
Listing NGR: ST4449009862
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390349
- 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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