Walls Enclosing Nursery Garden, Immediately West of the Coach House, and Gateway and Walls to Hamstone House (Not Listed)
WALLS ENCLOSING NURSERY GARDEN, IMMEDIATELY WEST OF THE COACH HOUSE, AND GATEWAY AND WALLS TO HAMSTONE HOUSE (NOT LISTED), GREAT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241168
- Date first listed:
- 27-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Walls Enclosing Nursery Garden, Immediately West of the Coach House, and Gateway and Walls to Hamstone House (Not Listed)
- Statutory Address:
- WALLS ENCLOSING NURSERY GARDEN, IMMEDIATELY WEST OF THE COACH HOUSE, AND GATEWAY AND WALLS TO HAMSTONE HOUSE (NOT LISTED), GREAT STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241168
- Date first listed:
- 27-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Walls Enclosing Nursery Garden, Immediately West of the Coach House, and Gateway and Walls to Hamstone House (Not Listed)
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALLS ENCLOSING NURSERY GARDEN, IMMEDIATELY WEST OF THE COACH HOUSE, AND GATEWAY AND WALLS TO HAMSTONE HOUSE (NOT LISTED), GREAT STREET
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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:
- WALLS ENCLOSING NURSERY GARDEN, IMMEDIATELY WEST OF THE COACH HOUSE, AND GATEWAY AND WALLS TO HAMSTONE HOUSE (NOT LISTED), GREAT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Norton sub Hamdon
- National Grid Reference:
- ST4680115950
Details
ST4615 NORTON SUB HAMDON CP GREAT STREET (North side)
9/204 Walls enclosing nursery garden,
immediately west of The Coach
House, and gateway and walls to
Hamstone House
(not listed)
-
GV II
Walls enclosing former garden to the Manor House (q.v), now nursery garden. Possibly late C18 or early C19. Ham stone.
Ashlar walls with plain coping, nearly 3 metres high; but the enclosing walls to north in brick or brick lined, English
garden wall bond, with thin stone copings and curved sweeps as the walls go uphill, northwards; gateway in west end.
Opposite Hamstone House (not included in the list) the ashlar wall reduces to about 1.2 metre high, with gateway on
east side of frontage; 4 square ashlar piers with plain plinths, bell-hip caps, linked in pairs by concave
quarter-circle plan walls with sweeps up to central gatepiers. C20 gates. The whole relevant to the context of the
Manor House, (q.v) and to the streetscene at the entrance to the village.
Listing NGR: ST4680115950
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 439984
- 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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