Bampton House and Attached Gate Piers and Gateway
Bampton House and attached gate piers and gateway, 8, Bampton Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206961
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Bampton House and Attached Gate Piers and Gateway
- Statutory Address:
- Bampton House and attached gate piers and gateway, 8, Bampton Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206961
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Bampton House and Attached Gate Piers and Gateway
- Statutory Address 1:
- Bampton House and attached gate piers and gateway, 8, Bampton Street
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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:
- Bampton House and attached gate piers and gateway, 8, Bampton Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Minehead
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 96696 46078
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11 July 2025 to amend the language in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
SS9646
900-1/3/2
MINEHEAD
BAMPTON STREET (West side)
No.8
Bampton House and attached gate piers and gateway
(Formerly Listed as: BAMPTON STREET (West side) No.8 Bampton House including yard gateway to right)
04/07/52
GV
II
House. Early C18, altered C19 and 1992. Rendered rubble with slate roofs and brick stacks. Double-depth plan. Two storeys with attic; six-window range. 1992 paired 6/6-pane sash windows, two to the left and three to the right of the door. Rusticated quoins. The C19 central pedimented gable has a tall semicircular-arched window with a cast-iron balustrade to the lower part, raised voussoirs and a mask keystone. To the right a wide segmental-arched carriage entrance with a lion's head to the centre and tiled coping is flanked by piers with pineapple finials. To the first floor of the right return is a late C19 oriel window. Rusticated quoins not visible, covered by rendering.
INTERIOR is in the process of being altered to accommodation for people with disabilities, the staircase etc has been removed.
HISTORY: this is thought to be part of the property leased by Samuel Hayman from Colonel Francis Luttrell in 1683. A description exists of a good tenement in Friday Street having a large court and a planked storehouse and two lofts above, a bakehouse and a stable, with other property and land in Bampton Street.
(Binding H: Minehead: A New History: Minehead: 1977-: 175).
Listing NGR: SS9669646078
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391127
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Binding, H, Minehead A New History, (1977), 175
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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