29, COURT BARTON

29, COURT BARTON

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1207652
Date first listed:
23-Sept-1950
List Entry Name:
29, COURT BARTON
Statutory Address:
29, COURT BARTON
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1207652
Date first listed:
23-Sept-1950
Date of most recent amendment:
24-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:
29, COURT BARTON
Statutory Address 1:
29, COURT BARTON

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
29, COURT BARTON

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Ilminster
National Grid Reference:
ST 36046 14614

Details

ILMINSTER

ST3614 COURT BARTON 1939-1/7/19 (East side) 23/09/50 No.29 (Formerly Listed as: COURT BARTON (East side) The Old Library and No.2)

GV II*

Formerly known as: No.2 Girls' Grammar School COURT BARTON. Grammar School, now a dwelling. Early C16 and late C19. Ham Hill stone ashlar facade, stack, coping and moulded kneelers to forward-facing gable; slate roof. This is the east end of the former grammar school and shares a main entrance with No.28, to the left. 2 storeys; 2-window range. All windows are mid C19 horned 6/6-pane sashes, which flank a central external stack, offset above eaves level and with 2 string courses to the top; attached to its centre is a semicircular sundial dated 1586 on the bracket. The entrance, in the set-back central block which is now No.28 (qv), has a Tudor arch with foliate spandrels below a 2-light mullioned window. INTERIOR: the oldest remaining features are wind braces in the roof and a quartered ceiling with early C16 moulded beams in the main ground-floor room. Otherwise greatly altered, and mostly of late C19 and late C20 character.

Listing NGR: ST3603814615

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
383383
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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