17, NORTH STREET

17, NORTH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1251532
Date first listed:
19-Apr-1961
List Entry Name:
17, NORTH STREET
Statutory Address:
17, NORTH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1251532
Date first listed:
19-Apr-1961
List Entry Name:
17, NORTH STREET
Statutory Address 1:
17, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
17, NORTH STREET

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

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Chiselborough
National Grid Reference:
ST4691214987

Details

ST4614 CHISELBOROUGH CP NORTH STREET (West side)
11/84 No 17
19.4.61
GV II*
Detached cottage. Possibly late C16. Ham stone coursed rubble, ashlar dressings; thatched roof with stepped coped south
gable with gabletted finial, plain gable to north: brick chimney stack to north. Two storeys, 2 bays. Above, C18
2-light timber casement window with iron framed opening lights; below a 4-light ovolo-mould mullioned window in wave
mould recess to bay 1 and a hollow-chamfered mullioned 3-light window in chamfered recess to bay 2, both with labels.
Gable entry to north, with thatched and timber open porch; C20 casement windows in both gables. Signs of 3 blocked
windows in west elevation. Interior not seen, but reported are deep chamfer ceiling beams, framed in hall; lateral with
step and runout stops in inner room; solid stone staircase, probably not in original position; post-and-truss partition
through both floors; blocked chamfered cambered-arched timber doorway; large fireplace with chamfered timber beam and
stone jambs in north wall, with salt hole: trenched purlins into truss principals, with wattle and daub infill panels.
(SSAVBRB Reports, Unpublished SRO, November 1979 and May 1981; VAG Report, unpublished SR0, 1972; Barley MW, The
English Farmhouse and Cottage, 1961, fig Country Life p 104, Plate Xa, and text pp 106-107).


Listing NGR: ST4691214987

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
263539
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Barley, M W, The English Farmhouse and Cottage, (1961)
Country Life in Country Life, (), 104
Country Life in Country Life, (), 106-107

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of 17, NORTH STREET

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