The Old Custom House Inn
THE OLD CUSTOM HOUSE INN, BOW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1235787
- Date first listed:
- 07-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Custom House Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD CUSTOM HOUSE INN, BOW STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/00028/34
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1235787
- Date first listed:
- 07-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Custom House Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD CUSTOM HOUSE INN, BOW 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:
- THE OLD CUSTOM HOUSE INN, BOW STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Langport
- National Grid Reference:
- ST4187926749
Details
LANGPORT CP BOW STREET (South side)
ST4126
10/82 The Old Custom House Inn
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GV II
(The Angel on O.S. Map) Inn. C18, modified. Brick, Flemish bond, facade colourwashed; Welsh slate roof with stepped
coped gable to east, plain gable to west; brick chimney stacks. Three storeys, 3 bays. Above, sash windows in plain
openings with gauged brick flat arches, 12-pane to first floor and 9-pane to second; to ground floor wide plain semi-
circular through archway to bay 1, fitted with boarded doors; C19 shopfront to bays 2 and 3 with C20 small-pane windows
and recessed door to right. West gable slate-clad. Interior not seen. No significance known to present name; as The
Angel first recorded in 1787 when a court leet was held here. (VCR, Vol III, 1974).
Listing NGR: ST4187926749
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263147
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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