BROOK HOUSE, AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALLS

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:: BROOK HOUSE, AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALLS, LITTLE STREET

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Official list entry

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

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:: BROOK HOUSE, AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALLS, LITTLE STREET

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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

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Legacy System:: LBS

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