Old Lantern and Attached Rubblestone Wall
OLD LANTERN AND ATTACHED RUBBLESTONE WALL, 2, CHURCH STEPS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207391
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Old Lantern and Attached Rubblestone Wall
- Statutory Address:
- OLD LANTERN AND ATTACHED RUBBLESTONE WALL, 2, CHURCH STEPS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207391
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Old Lantern and Attached Rubblestone Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD LANTERN AND ATTACHED RUBBLESTONE WALL, 2, CHURCH STEPS
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:
- OLD LANTERN AND ATTACHED RUBBLESTONE WALL, 2, 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 96648 46724
Details
MINEHEAD
SS9646 CHURCH STEPS 900-1/3/15 (East side) 04/07/52 No.2 Old Lantern and attached rubblestone wall (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STEPS (East side) No.2)
GV II
House on corner of Church Steps and Church Street. C17, heightened, extended and altered in mid C19. Colour-washed probably over cob; projecting rubblestone gable with stack to left of door, on north-west facade facing Church Steps; large external stack to south corner in Church Street, partially rendered; C19 rubblestone rear and crested slate roof. 2-unit plan with hall to left of probably originally unheated lower end; C19 rear wing. 2 storeys; 2-window range to both front and left returns. C19 two- and three-light casement windows. To the right of the rubblestone stack on Church Steps is a C19 single-storey rectangular bay with a 2-light casement window and a hipped plain tile roof which extends to the right and forms a porch over the door to the right where it is supported by a C19 bracket. Above it is a late C18/early C19 three-light leaded casement window at eaves level. To the left of the stack is a small leaded window, possibly a fire window. To the far left is a C19 single-storey lean-to with a corrugated-asbestos roof, it has a C20 door and window to the far left. The right return in Church Street has casement windows, 2-light to the first floor and 3-light to the ground floor. The corner is slightly rounded, suggesting a cob construction. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: a rubblestone retaining wall to the rear garden approx 3m high extends approx 20m along Church Street.
Listing NGR: SS9664846724
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391150
- 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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