1, ABBEY STREET AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS

1, ABBEY STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1203014
Date first listed:: 06-Sep-1974
List Entry Name:: 1, ABBEY STREET AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: 1, ABBEY STREET

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Date:: 2004-05-09
Reference:: IOE01/12354/13
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1203014
Date first listed:: 06-Sep-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Dec-1993
List Entry Name:: 1, ABBEY STREET AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: 1, ABBEY STREET
Statutory Address 2:: ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS TO NUMBER 1, ABBEY STREET

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:: 1, ABBEY STREET
Statutory Address:: ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS TO NUMBER 1, ABBEY 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 44104 09854

Details

CREWKERNE

ST4409 ABBEY STREET 876-1/7/1 (West side) 06/09/74 No.1 and attached area railings (Formerly Listed as: ABBEY STREET (South side) No.1) (Formerly Listed as: MARKET SQUARE Shop to north of King's Arms Public House)

GV II

Shop. Mid C19 with C17 or C18 rear wing. MATERIALS: limestone rubble with Ham Hill stone quoins and voussoirs to the front; slate roof, half-hipped to front-right, with one brick stack to centre of ridge of rear wing. PLAN: obtuse-angled L-shape plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 3-window range to the front; 2 storeys with attic in central gable of rear right wing, 4-window range. The Market Street facade, facing west, has late C19, 2/2 sashes to the first floor, and a mid C19 double shopfront, stepped forward, with 4 panes to each side under a simple fascia with a moulded cornice. The long right return, on Abbey Street, has 3 phases. The side of the C19 shop, which has a 2-light casement under the eaves of the half-hipped roof: a c1700 range, gabled to the street, with stone coping and a late C19 2/2 sash under a wooden lintel to each floor, and a smaller one in the apex. This range has a central ridge stack. The stepped-forward rear range, possibly older, is parallel to Abbey Street with a plain tile roof. All windows are C20, mostly casements under wooden lintels, those to the far right are horizontal, with 3-lights. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the first 2 ranges of the right return, in Abbey Street, have a narrow area enclosed by a low Ham Hill stone plinth with spearhead railings and a gate to the rear.

Listing NGR: ST4410409854

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Legacy System number:: 390281
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.