4, EAST QUAY

4, EAST QUAY

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1206098
Date first listed:
24-Mar-1950
List Entry Name:
4, EAST QUAY
Statutory Address:
4, EAST QUAY
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1206098
Date first listed:
24-Mar-1950
List Entry Name:
4, EAST QUAY
Statutory Address 1:
4, EAST QUAY

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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
4, EAST QUAY

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 30066 37153

Details

BRIDGWATER

ST3037 EAST QUAY 736-1/6/59 (East side) 24/03/50 No.4

GV II

House, now offices. Early/mid C18. Stucco with painted stone cornices, architraves, doorcase and plinth; painted English-bond brick wing to the left; parapeted roof not visible; brick stacks to gable ends. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys; 5-window range. The main house has near-symmetrical 4-window front with a single lower range to left beyond the pilaster. The attic storey has cornice and blocking course flanked by narrow pilasters and eared and shouldered architraves to 3/3-pane sash windows. The first floor, below a deeper cornice and with wider pilasters, has keyed segmental arches to moulded architraves and shallow aprons to 6/6-pane sashes; windows to ground floor are similar but the lower panes of the outer ones are plate-glass. The fine pedimented doorcase with a Gibbs surround to left of centre has double 2-panel doors. The range to left, formerly part of the warehouse to left, Nos 5-7 (qv), reaches the upper cornice of the main block; the second floor is blank, first floor has a shallow segmental arch to a 6/6-pane sash window and a wide C20 below. INTERIOR: the central hall has an early C19 staircase to left and a 6-panel door to rear service wing in a reeded cornice with roundels to the corners and a fanlight with Gothick glazing bars above. The staircase to second floor is early/mid C18, with closed string, turned balusters and a moulded and swept handrail. (Squibbs PJ: Squibbs' History of Bridgwater: Chichester: 1988-: PL 77).

Listing NGR: ST3008437153

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Legacy System number:
373876
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Squibbs, P J, Squibbs History of Bridgwater, (1988)

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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.

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