The Old Coat Inn

THE OLD COAT INN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1226228
Date first listed:
19-Apr-1961
List Entry Name:
The Old Coat Inn
Statutory Address:
THE OLD COAT INN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1226228
Date first listed:
19-Apr-1961
Date of most recent amendment:
28-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:
The Old Coat Inn
Statutory Address 1:
THE OLD COAT INN

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE OLD COAT INN

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 45205 20323

Details

ST42SE MARTOCK CP COAT

3/161 The Old Coat Inn (Formerly listed as Royal Marine Inn) 19.4.61

GV II

Detached house, formerly an inn. Probably C18, possibly with an earlier core. Ham stone near-ashlar; plain clay tile roof between stepped coped gables; brick end chimney stacks. Two storeys with attic, 3 bays. Plain mullioned windows with beaded surrounds, 3-light to outer bays and 2-light to upper bay 2, all with rectangular leaded panes in steel casements; to lower bay 2 a boarded door in beaded surround set in open stone porch of rudimentary detail; circular columns with cushion caps, plain top crowned with cyma-recta edged flat roof. Extension against the south-west gable, single-storey under triple-roll clay tile roof, undergoing alteration July 1985. Interior not seen. This may be the George Inn, mentioned by name 1631 and by inference 1617, but in 1950's/1960s known as Royal Marine Inn. (VCH, Vol III, 1974).

Listing NGR: ST4520520323

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Legacy System number:
423392
Legacy System:
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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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