55 AND 57, EAST STREET
55 AND 57, EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207965
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 55 AND 57, EAST STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 55 AND 57, EAST STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207965
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 55 AND 57, EAST STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 55 AND 57, EAST 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:
- 55 AND 57, EAST STREET
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 36405 14584
Details
ILMINSTER
ST3614 EAST STREET 1939-1/7/53 (North side) 29/07/76 Nos.55 AND 57 (Formerly Listed as: EAST STREET (North side) Nos.55 AND 57 Opies Agate Shop)
GV II
House and shop. Early C18 with c1760 brick addition. Limestone rubble with brick insert to centre, pantile roof with stepped stone coping and tall brick stacks to centre and rear of rear wing; plain tiles and coping to central projecting gable. Basically L-shape plan with rear wing to inside right, raised up a steep slope. Right-hand end, to east, lower than the road, is 2 storeys; 2-window range with C19 three-light casements, that to first-floor right under an oak lintel, the wall to the left of it is a brick inset of 2 storeys, a vertical joint to its right and a random joint with rubblestone to its left; the ground-floor casement of this range is under a flat gauged brick arch. To the left of centre is a taller 2-storey, 2-window range, projecting bay with an ogee Dutch gable supporting two C19 chimney pots and containing a blind ogee-arched window in the gable end and a blind window below it to the right: it has 2/2-pane sashes with forward frames to left of front and first-floor right return, all under flat gauged arches. In the angle to the right of the projection is a 6-panel door contained in a wooden porch, probably c1800, now enclosed in corrugated plastic sheeting. Shop to the left is single-storey with a simple C19 shop front. INTERIOR not inspected.
Listing NGR: ST3640514584
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383416
- 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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