Hillside Farmhouse and Front Boundary Railings
HILLSIDE FARMHOUSE AND FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, HIGHER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1226718
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Hillside Farmhouse and Front Boundary Railings
- Statutory Address:
- HILLSIDE FARMHOUSE AND FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, HIGHER STREET
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1226718
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Hillside Farmhouse and Front Boundary Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- HILLSIDE FARMHOUSE AND FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, HIGHER 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:
- HILLSIDE FARMHOUSE AND FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, HIGHER STREET
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 45498 17873
Details
Hillside Farmhouse etc, Higher Street. 16/265 11/265
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Hillside Farmhouse etc, Higher Street. 16/265 11/265
------------------------------------ ST4517 MARTOCK CP HIGHER STREET (North side) BOWER HINTON 16/265 Hillside Farmhouse (previously listed as Hillside House), and front boundary railings 19.4.61
GV II
Semi-detached house. Circa 1800. Ham stone ashlar; Welsh slate roof to shallow pitch between coped gables with kneelers; stone slab end chimney stacks. Two storeys, 3 bays. Plinth, rusticated work to ground floor, horizontal joints only, band course, eaves cornice, plain pilasters returned with cornice around corners; 16-pane sash windows in plain openings below, and above in architraves with hoods above and fielded panel aprons below; to lower bay 2 the entrance doorway, 6-panelled in architrave with simple pediment hood on plain brackets. Interior not seen. Starting from the south-west corner of house, and forming west and south boundaries, a low stone wall with wrot-iron railings having arrow points to middle and upper rails, with arch-braced standards at about 2m centres having cast urn finials; on south west corner the gates removed and replaced by railings, and relocated further east with wood posts; gates have rails to match, with sweeps up at sides, and added cast-iron ornamentation, probably of early C19; the whole adding considerably to the setting of the house, and to the streetscene on a prominent corner position.
Listing NGR: ST4549817873
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 424128
- 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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