No 55 and Attached Wing Wall
NO 55 AND ATTACHED WING WALL, WATER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1227280
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- No 55 and Attached Wing Wall
- Statutory Address:
- NO 55 AND ATTACHED WING WALL, WATER STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1227280
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- No 55 and Attached Wing Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- NO 55 AND ATTACHED WING WALL, WATER 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:
- NO 55 AND ATTACHED WING WALL, WATER 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 45868 18963
Details
No. 55 etc, Water Street 15/329 10/329
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No. 55 etc, Water Street 15/329 10/329
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ST4518 MARTOCK CP WATER STREET (North side)
15/329 No 55, and attached wing wall
- GV II
Detached house. Mid C19. Ham stone ashlar; Welsh slate roof between stepped coped gables; stone chimney stacks. Double roof plan, with ridges at right angles to road; 2 storeys with attics, 2 bays x 3 bays. South elevation double gabled, with gabletted and leaf finials; hollow chamfer mullioned windows with 4 centre arched lights In 1+2+1 light angled bays with flat roofs battlemented parapets to ground floor, and 2 light under square libels to first floor; single light under labels to attic windows. Similar windows. all 2-light with flat heads, on west elevation; all windows have single horizontal bar: to lower centre bay a cambered arched doorway under square label with part-glazed door. Interior not seen. Extending westwards from between bays 1 and 2 a wing wall about 2.5 m high in ashlar with thin coping swept at ends, and pair square gate piers, plinthed with stepped shallow pyramidal tops, with wood gates; contributing to setting of the house.
Listing NGR: ST4586818963
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 424971
- 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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