POPLE'S WELL AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS

POPLE'S WELL AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, POPLE'S WELL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1208599
Date first listed:: 06-Sep-1974
List Entry Name:: POPLE'S WELL AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: POPLE'S WELL AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, POPLE'S WELL

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Date:: 2003-01-12
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1208599
Date first listed:: 06-Sep-1974
List Entry Name:: POPLE'S WELL AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: POPLE'S WELL AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, POPLE'S WELL

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: POPLE'S WELL AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, POPLE'S WELL

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 43903 09894

Details

CREWKERNE

ST4309 POPLE'S WELL 876-1/6/154 (North side) 06/09/74 Pople's Well and attached walls and railings

II

House. Late C17/early C18. MATERIALS: coursed limestone rubble, slate roof with stepped stone copings to gable ends and left-of-centre; brick stacks to outer gables. PLAN: 2-unit plan with C19 wing to the left. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3-window range. The house is in 2 parts divided by a stepped stone coping. The block to the right is earlier, having a steeper pitched roof and a continuous dripmould above the ground-floor window and door: 2 casements at eaves level, 4-light to the right and 3-light over the door which has 2 long glazed panels to the top and 2 raised-and-fielded panels below, possibly a former 6-panel door, under a C20 hood. Under the dripmould to the far right is a wooden lintel to a former door or window. The left-hand C18 block has higher eaves and a lower ridge, a 4-light casement to the centre of the first floor and a 3-light below, both with gauged flat stone arches. All the glazing is C20, leaded to the first-floor, small panes to the ground-floor. INTERIOR: mid C19 panelled doors and shutters. The central hall is stone flagged with a variety of repositioned panelling; the C19 dog-leg stairs are against the former rear wall, and divide halfway to right and left. The room to the right has an open fireplace with an oak lintel chamfered to the rear; the lintel is so high it may have been raised. This room has a chamfered crossbeam, early C18 raised-and-fielded panelling below the dado rail and repositioned C19 wooden segmental arches flank the fireplace. The room to the left has C19 repositioned panelling and fireplace; all the doors to this side have 4 panels. The stairs, to the centre against the former rear wall, are C19. C19 A-frame roof except C17 plastered truss with daub infill to left. The attic has wide elm floorboards and a C19 plank screen dividing the stairs from the rear wall. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: spearhead railings with urn finials and double gates are flanked by a high rubblestone wall, attached to the house on the right. This wall is returned to rear on the left after approx 17 metres and forms a boundary with Victoria Square.

Listing NGR: ST4390309894

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Legacy System number:: 390431
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.