ORCHARD HOUSE AND FRONT RAILINGS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1226723
Date first listed:: 28-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:: ORCHARD HOUSE AND FRONT RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: ORCHARD HOUSE AND FRONT RAILINGS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1226723
Date first listed:: 28-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:: ORCHARD HOUSE AND FRONT RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: ORCHARD HOUSE AND FRONT RAILINGS

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:: ORCHARD HOUSE AND FRONT RAILINGS

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 45793 18794

Details

Orchard House etc, Hurst. 15/274 10/274

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Orchard House etc, Hurst. 15/274 10/274

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15/274 Orchard House and front boundary railings

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GV II

Detached house. C16 with later front. Ham stone rubble, but with colourwashed brick facade, Flemish bond, with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof over stone slate base courses between stepped coped gables; brick chimney stacks. 'L'-plan; 2 storeys, 5 bays, of which bay 5 is a one-bay gabled projection. Above, horizontal bar casements, 3-light except upper bay 3 which is 4-light; below a C20 4-light window bay 1 in reconstructed stone surrounds; plain mullioned windows of 4 lights lower bay 3 and 3 lights lower bay 4, without labels; to lower bay 2, a C20 door set in deep recess with plain beaded surround: in north return bay 5 are C20 casements, the lower in part-blocked former shop window, with blocked doorway to left. North gable shows earlier lower roof line. Inside, the centre room has a 9-bay deep moulded beam panelled ceiling, and in the north wall a wide fireplace with chamfered beam, a gable entry and a winding stone stair with oval light; other C18 features in wings to either side; centre portion has one visible raised cruck, with indications that others survive. About 3m west of the house, mostly set on low stone walling, are wrot iron railings, with arrow head tops and cast urn finials to arch-braced standards, and gate to match opposite door (north section newly installed, to match, June l985).

Listing NGR: ST4579318794

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Legacy System number:: 424142
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.