10, MARKET PLACE
10, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1238740
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- 10, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 10, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1238740
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- 10, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 10, MARKET PLACE
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:
- 10, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wincanton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST7128428633
Details
ST7128 WINCANTON CP MARKET PLACE (North side)
8/181 No 10
(Formerly the Greyhound Hotel)
24.3.61
GV II
Inn, now antique shop. C18. By Nathaniel Ireson. Local stone rubble rendered and colourwashed with printed ashlar
dressings; plain clay tile roof behind parapet; brick chimney stacks. 3 storeys, 5 bays. Plinth, rusticated quoins,
cornice, parapet; 12-pane sash windows, all but those to ground floor renewed, in architraved surrounds with triple
keystones; late C20 shopfront in character bays 4 and 5; and to bay 3 a carriage archway through to yard, a triple
keystoned flat arch flanked by fluted Doric pilasters carrying plain entablature with metopes at ends only; over this a
shallow oriel window of three 12-pane sashes with lead flat roof over, having Royal Crest in centre under-cill panel
commemorating a one-night stay by Queen Victoria when a child; elaborate wrot iron bracket for hanging sign over;
parapet has smaller quoins and pitched centre section featuring an oval plaque with greyhound, flanked by pilasters; to
crown of centre panel and to ends of parapet are pineapple vase finials. In the carriageway through are two 6-panel
doors with architraves to left, and farther back two single-storey bay windows on right. First mention in parish
records 1743; advertised in 1760 as 'new built'. The Greyhound may represent the arms of the Churchey family of The
Dogs, Tout Hill (qv). (Sweetman G, History of Wincanton. c1904).
Listing NGR: ST7128428633
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 416355
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sweetman, G, History of Wincanton, (1903)
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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