No 23 (Rockhill House) , With Walls Enclosing Garden to North East
NO 23 (ROCKHILL HOUSE), WITH WALLS ENCLOSING GARDEN TO NORTH EAST, 23, NORTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1239005
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- No 23 (Rockhill House) , With Walls Enclosing Garden to North East
- Statutory Address:
- NO 23 (ROCKHILL HOUSE), WITH WALLS ENCLOSING GARDEN TO NORTH EAST, 23, NORTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1239005
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- No 23 (Rockhill House) , With Walls Enclosing Garden to North East
- Statutory Address 1:
- NO 23 (ROCKHILL HOUSE), WITH WALLS ENCLOSING GARDEN TO NORTH EAST, 23, NORTH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- ROCKHILL HOUSE, WITH WALLS ENCLOSING GARDEN TO NORTH EAST, 23, NORTH 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 23 (ROCKHILL HOUSE), WITH WALLS ENCLOSING GARDEN TO NORTH EAST, 23, NORTH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- ROCKHILL HOUSE, WITH WALLS ENCLOSING GARDEN TO NORTH EAST, 23, NORTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wincanton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST7116028766
Details
ST7128
8/204
WINCANTON CP
NORTH STREET (West side)
No 23 (Rockhill House), with walls enclosing garden to North East
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GV II
House. Early C18, modified early C19. Local stone rubble, rendered and colourwashed on front elevation; hipped Welsh slate roof with large eaves overhang; brick chimney stacks. 3 storeys, 3 bays. Large 12-pane sash windows to ground floor and 16-pane sashes to first, casement windows to second floor, all in plain openings: central 6-panel door with fanlight in semi-circular arched recess. Interior not seen. Boundary walls of local stone with brick backing and ashlar copings, about 1.25 metres high on South side, with sweep up to house; level on North side; East boundary averages 1 metre high, with plain railings about 600mm high above; square ashlar gate piers with pyramidal tops; C20 metal gate.
House built for Bartholomew Day between 1725 and 1742, but modified c1830-40 (Sweetman G, History of Wincanton, c1904).
Listing NGR: ST7116028766
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 416726
- 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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