Prospect Buildings

PROSPECT BUILDINGS, 7-14, CROSS LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1207718
Date first listed:
29-Jul-1976
List Entry Name:
Prospect Buildings
Statutory Address:
PROSPECT BUILDINGS, 7-14, CROSS LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1207718
Date first listed:
29-Jul-1976
List Entry Name:
Prospect Buildings
Statutory Address 1:
PROSPECT BUILDINGS, 7-14, CROSS LANE

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

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
PROSPECT BUILDINGS, 7-14, CROSS LANE

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 36043 14122

Details

ILMINSTER

ST3614 CROSS LANE 1939-1/7/24 (South side) 29/07/76 Nos.7-14 (Consecutive) Prospect Buildings

GV II

Cross Lane is shown on OS Map as Orchard Vale. Row of 8 cottages. c1840. Painted brick with pantile roofs and brick stacks to gable ends and party walls. Designed in pairs, each is 2-storey, one-window range with a round-arched blind window above paired, round arches to doors. No.14, to the left (east), has original planked door and 3-light casements with small panes; Nos 11, 12 and 13 have C20 three-light casements, others are plate glass. All doors and windows have keystones. INTERIORS not inspected but said to have been altered.

Listing NGR: ST3604314122

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
383388
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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