Brook House, and Front Boundary Walls
BROOK HOUSE, AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALLS, LITTLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260574
- Date first listed:
- 27-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Brook House, and Front Boundary Walls
- Statutory Address:
- BROOK HOUSE, AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALLS, LITTLE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260574
- Date first listed:
- 27-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Brook House, and Front Boundary Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROOK HOUSE, AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALLS, LITTLE 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:
- BROOK HOUSE, AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALLS, LITTLE 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:
- ST 47051 15811
Details
ST4715 NORTON SUB HAMDON CP LITTLE STREET (North side) 9/227 Brook House, and front boundary walls - GV II Semi-detached house. Early/mid C19. Ham stone ashlar; Welsh slate roof to shallow pitch with stepped coped gables; stone and brick chimney stacks. Two storeys, 3 bays. Bay 1 has 3-light hollow-chamfered mullioned windows in chamfered recesses, both with labels; bays 2 and 3 have 16-pane sash windows in plain openings; between bays 1 and 2 a projecting porch, open with semi-circular arches to front and sides, with panelled piers with imposts, and architrave and console keystone to arch; cornice mould and step to flat roof. Further mullioned windows in north gable. Interior not seen. Enclosing the garden to the front, and attached to the adjoining building to the south (not included as the list) an ashlar boundary wall about 1 metre high with thin coping, upsweeps to square gatepiers with pyramidal tops framing C20 iron gates, and continued around the north boundary, with some portions stepped up about 500mm, the corner curved: the whole adding to the setting of the house and of the streetscene at an important junction in the centre of the village.
Listing NGR: ST4704915806
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440007
- 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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