Smugglers' Cottage and Attached Walls
SMUGGLERS' COTTAGE AND ATTACHED WALLS, 6, CHURCH STEPS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206971
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Smugglers' Cottage and Attached Walls
- Statutory Address:
- SMUGGLERS' COTTAGE AND ATTACHED WALLS, 6, CHURCH STEPS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206971
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Smugglers' Cottage and Attached Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- SMUGGLERS' COTTAGE AND ATTACHED WALLS, 6, CHURCH STEPS
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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:
- SMUGGLERS' COTTAGE AND ATTACHED WALLS, 6, CHURCH STEPS
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 96666 46744
Details
MINEHEAD
SS9646 CHURCH STEPS 900-1/3/18 (East side) 04/07/52 No.6 Smugglers' Cottage and attached walls (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STEPS (East side) No.6)
GV II
Shown on OS map as No.8. House. Probably early C17. Colour-washed cob on a rubblestone base with a large lateral stack to the front, off-set below and above the eaves, and a very tall C20 brick shaft; hipped thatched roof. 3-unit plan with passage to right of hall and lower end to right; jointed cruck over the passage; late medieval open hall with inserted C17 front lateral stack to left of through passage. Pantiled outshut to the rear right. 2 storeys on a sloping site; 2-window range. To the left are two C19 two-light casement windows to both floors, the cills of those on the ground floor at ground level; to the right of the stack is a C20 door with a C19 two-light casement window to the right of it. INTERIOR: open fireplace to lateral stack with timber bressummer (probably later); jointed cruck over the passage has ridge purlin set on tenoned apex with splayed scarf joints to the purlins; upper side of truss (originally closed) and ridge purlin are smoke-blackened. C17 truss with ridge-in-notch to 2-bay lower end. Rafters with bark, support wheat straw thatch. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: rubblestone walls approx 2m high extend approx 7m to the left and 5m to the right. One of the least altered vernacular houses in Minehead.
Listing NGR: SS9666646744
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391153
- 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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