Little Creech (Royal Society For the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Centre)
LITTLE CREECH (ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS CENTRE), BICKENHALL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253377
- Date first listed:
- 08-Aug-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Little Creech (Royal Society For the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Centre)
- Statutory Address:
- LITTLE CREECH (ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS CENTRE), BICKENHALL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253377
- Date first listed:
- 08-Aug-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Little Creech (Royal Society For the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Centre)
- Statutory Address 1:
- LITTLE CREECH (ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS CENTRE), BICKENHALL LANE
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:
- LITTLE CREECH (ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS CENTRE), BICKENHALL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- West Hatch
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 27692 19725
Details
WEST HATCH BICKENHALL LANE ST 21 NE
8/10003 Little Creech (RSPCA Centre)
- II
Farmhouse. Circa early to mid C17; remodelled and extended in late C18 [datestone 1783]; altered C19. Rendered stone. Asbestos slate roof with Hamstone coping to gable-ends; rear pitch clad in concrete tiles. Axial and gable-end stacks with rebuilt brick shafts. PLAN: 3-room plan with service rooms in the rear outshut and a cross-passage to the right of the centre room. The original house would have had a 3-room plan with a lobby entrance in front of the axial stack between the central hall/parlour and the kitchen on the right with its large gable-end stack. In the late C18 the house was refenestrated, the eaves were raised, the roof rebuilt and an outshut built across the back. In the C19 a cross-passage was inserted through the kitchen and an outshut was built at the right [east] end. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window south front, arranged 2:1. Hamstone 3-light mullion windows with iron casements. Cross-passage doorway to right of centre with cambered arch and panelled and glazed door. On first floor, to right of centre, a stone tablet inscribed BI:IM:DB:1783. At the rear [north] the roof is carried down as a catslide over the outshut. INTERIOR: Right-hand room [kitchen], reduced because of insertion of cross-passage, has chamfered cross-beam over passage partition and very large fireplace with chamfered stone jambs, large chamfered timber lintel with step stops, shelf on brackets, pegs above, oven and curing chamber; blocked newel staircase beside stack. Central room [hall/parlour] has chamfered cross-beams with cyma stops and large stone fireplace with chamfered jambs and cyma-moulded timber lintel. The left [west] room has no exposed features. C18 tenoned-purlin roof with collars pegged to the faces of the principals.
Listing NGR: ST2769219725
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436549
- 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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