Shepherds Cottage and Front Boundary Wall With Gateway
SHEPHERDS COTTAGE AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL WITH GATEWAY, HIGHER STREET
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260697
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Shepherds Cottage and Front Boundary Wall With Gateway
- Statutory Address:
- SHEPHERDS COTTAGE AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL WITH GATEWAY, HIGHER STREET
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2004-07-02
- Reference:
- IOE01/11413/32
- Rights:
- © Mr John Chester. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260697
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Shepherds Cottage and Front Boundary Wall With Gateway
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHEPHERDS COTTAGE AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL WITH GATEWAY, HIGHER 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:
- SHEPHERDS COTTAGE AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL WITH GATEWAY, HIGHER 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 46657 15548
Details
ST4615 NORTON SUB HAMDON CP HIGHER STREET (West side) 9/224 Shepherds Cottage (formerly listed as Pair of Cottages - formerly called Peacehaven), and front boundary wall with gateway 19.4.61 GV II Detached house. C17. Ham stone cut and squared, ashlar dressings; double Roman clay tiles between high coped gables, suggesting former thatch; brick end chimney stacks. Two storeys, 5 bays. Hollow-chamfer mullioned windows in chamfered recesses, all 2-light with horizontal-bar glazing, lower windows with labels; to lower bay 3 a moulded cambered-arched doorway with incised spandrils and separate label, with boarded door. Single-storey lean-to against south gable, outshut to rear. Interior not seen. About 4 metres east of house the boundary walls, about 1.2 metre high, in coursed rubble with plain coping having curved Sweeps up to gateway piers opposite door to house; piers square, about 2.25m high, with cornice caps and stepped pyramid caps, wrot-iron gate between, the whole adding to the setting of the house.
Listing NGR: ST4665715548
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440004
- 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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 14-Jun-2026 at 15:10:29.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.