North and East Boundary Railings to Ashlar House

NORTH AND EAST BOUNDARY RAILINGS TO ASHLAR HOUSE, POUND LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1227385
Date first listed:
28-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:
North and East Boundary Railings to Ashlar House
Statutory Address:
NORTH AND EAST BOUNDARY RAILINGS TO ASHLAR HOUSE, POUND LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1227385
Date first listed:
28-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:
North and East Boundary Railings to Ashlar House
Statutory Address 1:
NORTH AND EAST BOUNDARY RAILINGS TO ASHLAR HOUSE, POUND LANE

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:
NORTH AND EAST BOUNDARY RAILINGS TO ASHLAR HOUSE, POUND LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Martock
National Grid Reference:
ST4612019117

Details

North and east boundary railings
12/318
to Ashlar House, Pound Lane
9/318

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ST4619 MARTOCK CP POUND LANE (South side)

12/318 North and east boundary railings
to Ashlar House
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GV II

Boundary railings gates and piers. C18/C19. Ham stone piers, wrot iron railings and gates. To north boundary, 3 m from
house, railings with alternate barbed spearpoints and arrowheads, cast iron finials to arch braced standards; C20 gate
opposite the door to house; railing returns along east boundary, and at south-east corner a pair of rusticated piers
with cornice caps, and between then a pair of wrot iron pates, possibly late C18, plain up to middle rail, then with
finer rods having cast rose decorations, alternate spears and barbed points to top rail with scrolls over, and cast
iron urn finials to edges. The whole contributing greatly to the setting of Ashlar House (qv) and to the streetscene
around the Church of All Saints (qv).


Listing NGR: ST4612019117

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
424962
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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