1 AND 2, HIGHER STREET
1 AND 2, HIGHER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241211
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- 1 AND 2, HIGHER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 1 AND 2, HIGHER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241211
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 1 AND 2, HIGHER STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 AND 2, HIGHER 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:
- 1 AND 2, HIGHER 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:
- ST4686415910
Details
ST4615 NORTON SUB HAMDON CP HIGHER STREET (East side)
9/216 Nos 1 and 2
(formerly listed as 2 cottages 20
yds W. of Court Farmhouse)
19.4.61
GV II
Pair cottages. Probably early C19. Ham stone cut and squared, ashlar dressings, and ashlar north elevation to No. 1;
Welsh slate roofs between stepped coped gables; stone and brick chimney stacks. Two-storeys with attics; ridges of
roofs at right angles to road giving 2 single-bay gables to Higher Street. Both cottages have a 16-pane sash window in
plain opening to right of ground floor, with doorways in deep plain recesses to left; to first floors and attic of No.
2, plain mullioned windows with slight chamfers, that to first floor of No. 2 is 3-light, the others 2-light; small
casement to attic of No. 1. The north elevation to No. 1 has band course between floors, and pairs of 2-light
small-pane casements at each level, in slightly segmental-arched openings, C20 extensions to south of No. 2.
Interiors not seen.
Listing NGR: ST4686415910
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 439996
- 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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