Blake House
BLAKE HOUSE, 12, 12A AND 14, BAMPTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206963
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Blake House
- Statutory Address:
- BLAKE HOUSE, 12, 12A AND 14, BAMPTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206963
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Blake House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLAKE HOUSE, 12, 12A AND 14, BAMPTON 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:
- BLAKE HOUSE, 12, 12A AND 14, 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 96690 46056
Details
MINEHEAD
SS9646 BAMPTON STREET 900-1/3/5 (West side) 04/07/52 Nos.12, 12A AND 14 Blake House (No.12) and Blake Cottage (No.12A) (Formerly Listed as: BAMPTON STREET (West side) Nos.12 AND 14)
GV II
3 houses. Late C17/early C18, altered C19. Painted render over rubblestone and cob, half-hipped slate roof with brick stack to the right. The narrow 2-storey rear right wing (No.12A) is built of cob with rubblestone to the rear gable end, with a pantile roof and lateral stack to the right. 3-phase plan: No.14 to the left is a C19 extension with entry to right of 2-room plan; late C17/early C18; No.12 of 2-room plan with central through-passage; No.12A to the rear of No.12 is of 2-room plan with entry to right of room with front lateral stack, and probably represents an earlier building extended by No.12 onto Bampton Street elevation. That to the right, No.12A, curves along Court Green (qv). and is of 2 storeys; 2-window range with C19 and C20 windows and door. No.12, on Bampton Street, is of 3 storeys; 2-window range has ovolo-moulded mullions to C17 four-light windows to the second floor and C20 windows to ground and first floors. No.14, to the left, is of 2 storeys; 2-window range, with a set-back entrance to the far right and late C19 or C20 three-light casement windows. INTERIOR: No.12: room to right has an axial beam and is angled to the rear right, a former corner fireplace; to the rear wall is an early C18 semicircular niche with fretted shelves. The room to the left has an open fireplace with a timber lintel and a chamfered beam to left of centre. Early C18 two-panelled doors lead onto the passage. Some panelling below the windows, space for shutters, now removed. No.14 has been altered. No.14 was listed on 13.2.76.
Listing NGR: SS9669046056
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391130
- 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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