Bachelors Hall

BACHELORS HALL, GILLS LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1262676
Date first listed:
09-Feb-1961
List Entry Name:
Bachelors Hall
Statutory Address:
BACHELORS HALL, GILLS LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1262676
Date first listed:
09-Feb-1961
List Entry Name:
Bachelors Hall
Statutory Address 1:
BACHELORS HALL, GILLS LANE

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BACHELORS HALL, GILLS LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
East Brent
National Grid Reference:
ST 36799 52173

Details

ST35SE EAST BRENT CP GILLS LANE (East side) Rooks Bridge

6/69 Bachelors Hall

9.2.61

- II

House. Late C18. Roughcast, pantile roof, coped verges, 2 brick stacks. Gothick; garden frontage of 2 storeys, 3 bays, 2-light casements, those to ground floor 2-light in an elaborate gothick style, those to first floor 2-light with glazing bars featuring marginal lights. Central door opening, 6-panelled door; C20 verandah enclosing left half of ground floor, pantile roof with glazed panels; two bay addition to right of frontage in conforming style, of C20. Lean to porch to rear with a parapet; wide heavily moulded 4-centred entrance arch with a central carved boss, moulded jaabs, adjacent a gargoyle, pointed arch inner door opening, 4 panelled door in a gothick style. Some co-eval interior features. Room to rear of ground floor with 3 heavily moulded cambered ceiling beams with elaborate central bosses believed to be reused from the roof of the North aisle of the church of St Mary, East Brent (qv); probably C15. Part of the entrance arch to the rear of the building and the gargoyle may also be of this late,

Listing NGR: ST3679952173

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
434382
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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