Ashlands Cottage and Attached Walls, Gates and Railings

ASHLANDS COTTAGE AND ATTACHED WALLS, GATES AND RAILINGS, NORTH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1208537
Date first listed:
06-Dec-1974
List Entry Name:
Ashlands Cottage and Attached Walls, Gates and Railings
Statutory Address:
ASHLANDS COTTAGE AND ATTACHED WALLS, GATES AND RAILINGS, NORTH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1208537
Date first listed:
06-Dec-1974
Date of most recent amendment:
06-Dec-1993
List Entry Name:
Ashlands Cottage and Attached Walls, Gates and Railings
Statutory Address 1:
ASHLANDS COTTAGE AND ATTACHED WALLS, GATES AND RAILINGS, NORTH STREET

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
ASHLANDS COTTAGE AND ATTACHED WALLS, GATES AND RAILINGS, NORTH STREET

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

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Crewkerne
National Grid Reference:
ST 44150 10436

Details

CREWKERNE

ST4410 NORTH STREET 876-1/5/144 (West side) 06/12/74 Ashlands Cottage and attached walls, gates and railings (Formerly Listed as: NORTH STREET (West side) Ashlands House including iron railing, gate piers and gates)

II

House. C18, altered late C19 and 1990. MATERIALS: limestone rubble with stepped stone coping to left gable end, and 3 brick stacks, one to the left, and two the centre of the ridge of the slate roof. PLAN: single-unit plan, with late C19 extension, it is a right rear wing to Ashlands House (qv), but a separate property. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3-window range. All windows to the front are c1990 under gauged flat stone arches and C20 lintels, windows to the rear are under gauged cambered arches: 3-light casements with small panes to the left and late C19 horned 2/2-pane sashes to the right. c1990 door in a plain stone porch. INTERIOR: the unit to the left, attached to Ashlands House (qv), has an open fireplace with a stone jamb to the right, an oak lintel which has been cut and is now supported by a brick wall to the left, to make access to the C19 extension to the rear; a stop-chamfered beam rests on the lintel of a C19 window to the rear. The room above has a C19 fireplace, otherwise the interior is altered. There is said to be a well in the centre, to the rear of the original dwelling. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached to the south-east corner is a low Ham Hill stone wall extending to the left and fronting Ashlands House; it has alternate loop-and spearhead railings with fleur-de-lys finials and a matching gate to the right.

Listing NGR: ST4408510095

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
390421
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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