Stepps House

Stepps House, Broadway, Ilminster, TA19 9RG

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1248179
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:: Stepps House
Statutory Address:: Stepps House, Broadway, Ilminster, TA19 9RG

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1248179
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:: Stepps House
Statutory Address 1:: Stepps House, Broadway, Ilminster, TA19 9RG

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Stepps House, Broadway, Ilminster, TA19 9RG

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Broadway
National Grid Reference:: ST 32192 15426

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 6 February 2024 to update the name and address, remove superfluous source details from text and to reformat the text to current standards

ST3215 11/8

BROADWAY CP BROADWAY Stepps House

(Formerly listed as Steps, BROADWAY STREET)

4.2.58

GV II Farmhouse, now dwelling. Possibly C17, altered 1823, restored mid C20. Squared and coursed Ham stone, random rubble local stone villas at rear, thatched roofs, hipped left gable end, coped verges with stone stacks at north and south gable ends of west range, brick stack on ridge of main block set in from junction with west range.

Plan not clear without an internal inspection, L-plan facing north onto road with two wings on south front. North front: two storeys, 3:1 bays, first floor C20 four-light casements, earlier three-light casement in re-entrant angle of wing with old catch, gable and four-light under wooden lintel, ground floor two four-light windows left and one right of entrance, latter with old catch, studded plank door with timber flat-roofed columnar porch, gable end with renewed three-light mullioned andtransomed window. Returns partially seen, right (west) said to have three-light wooden mullioned window on first floor; left return said to have three-light ovolo-moulded mullioned window to left of entrance, three bay wing beyond it only on ground floor. South front not seen, south-west gable end said to have date of 1825 with initials R(obert) S(tanderwick) in gable end.

Interior not seen: said to contain remains of plank and muntin screens to through passage, room to right with four-panel compartment ceiling with chamfered beams, bressumer beam with chamfered lintel and stone jambs, two pairs of jointed cruck trusses above, through passage to right of fireplace with remains of plink and muntin screen with peaked head, framed ceiling with moulded beams in north-west wing.

Listing NGR: ST3219215426

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Legacy System number:: 264063
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Somerset and South Avon Vernacular Building Research Group Report' in July, (1982)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.