SHEPHERDS COTTAGE AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL WITH GATEWAY

SHEPHERDS COTTAGE AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL WITH GATEWAY, HIGHER STREET

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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

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Date:: 2004-07-02
Reference:: IOE01/11413/32
Rights:: © Mr John Chester. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official 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

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 440004
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.