Bower House and Raised Pavement to Front
BOWER HOUSE AND RAISED PAVEMENT TO FRONT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225185
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Bower House and Raised Pavement to Front
- Statutory Address:
- BOWER HOUSE AND RAISED PAVEMENT TO FRONT
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225185
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Bower House and Raised Pavement to Front
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOWER HOUSE AND RAISED PAVEMENT TO FRONT
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:
- BOWER HOUSE AND RAISED PAVEMENT TO FRONT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Martock
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 45657 17918
Details
Bower House, Bower Hinton. 16/181 11/181
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Bower House, Bower Hinton. 16/181 11/181
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16/181 Bower House (formerly listed as the Red Lion Inn), and raised pavement to front 19.4.61
GV II
House, formerly inn. C17. Ham stone ashlar; plain clay tile roof with plain south gable, coped to north; brick chimney stacks. Two storeys, 4 bays. Continuous label over lower openings, eaves moulding; small pane casement windows to bay 1, 3-light above and 4-light below; then ovolo- mould mullioned windows; 2-light upper bay 2 and 3-light to both levels bay 4; to bay 3 an angled bay window 1+4+1 lights to both levels, with coped gable on shaped kneeler stones with gabletted finial and a square ovolo-mould panel; to lower bay 2 a moulded cambered-arched doorway with boarded door. Against north gable an early C19 range under shallow-pitched Welsh slate roof; bay 1 has a 4-centre arched carriage opening with 3-light casement above, the centre light rectangular-leaded: the remaining 3 bays now converted into 2 houses and not of special interest. Interior not seen, but reported is dated plasterwork of 1632 in a front room. At front of house an old raised pavement, average 750 mm high, in Ham stone rubble with Keinton slab pavings and Ham stone edgings, 2 steps at north end and extension to south, all an integral part of the setting of the house and of the streetscene. This was the Red Lion Inn, licensed by 1795 and closed in c1970. (VCH, Vol III, 1974).
Listing NGR: ST4565717918
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 421330
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1974)
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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