No 2, and Front Boundary Railings
NO 2, AND FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, 2, SOUTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261600
- Date first listed:
- 27-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- No 2, and Front Boundary Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NO 2, AND FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, 2, SOUTH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261600
- Date first listed:
- 27-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- No 2, and Front Boundary Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NO 2, AND FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, 2, SOUTH 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:
- NO 2, AND FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, 2, SOUTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Montacute
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 49843 16883
Details
ST4916 MONTACUTE CP SOUTH STREET (East side) + 8/173 No. 2, and front boundary railings - GV II Detached house. Earlier C19. Ham stone ashlar; half-hipped Welsh slate roof between coped gables; brick chimney stacks. Double-roof plan: 2 storeys with attics, 2 bays. Plinth, cornice, shallow plain parapet; 12-pane sash windows in plain openings: to lower bay 2 a 6-fielded-panelled door set under rectangular fanlight with diamond panes, in plain opening Circular attic window in south gable. interior not seen. About 2m west of building a low stone will with chamfered plinth and steeply sloped coping stones, having square piers with frieze band and bell-hip tops; walls capped with wrot and cast-iron railings with taper points to middle and top rails, and fleur-de-lys finials to arch-braced standards, and matching gate between piers opposite doorway: the whole adding to the setting of the house, one of the few with a front garden in the centre of this village.
Listing NGR: ST4985416883
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 437114
- 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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