Ensor House
ENSOR HOUSE, BOW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1264902
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Ensor House
- Statutory Address:
- ENSOR HOUSE, BOW STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1264902
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Ensor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ENSOR HOUSE, BOW 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:
- ENSOR HOUSE, BOW STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Langport
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 41894 26751
Details
LANGPORT CP BOW STREET (South side) ST4126 10/80 Ensor House 17.4.59 GV II
House, now warehouse. C18 origins, modified late C19. Red brick, Flemish bond, Ham stone dressings; plain clay tile roof with bonnetted hips; brick chimney stacks. Three storeys, 4 bays. Stone plinth, pilasters to corners with Doric style heads and bases dentilled brick cornice; sash windows in Gibbsian rusticated architraves with triple keystones, 12-pane to first floor and 9-pane to second: ground floor adapted c1900, with shopfront under fascia; now bricked up with 4 steel casement windows inserted, under bays 1 to 3; to bay 4 an elliptical arched doorway with impost blocks and single keystone to unmoulded arch, with boarded doors. Interior not seen - building apparently disused for some while, October 1984. Stylistically the building could be by Nathaniel Ireson - the Hoare family of Stourhead were Lords of the Manor, and Ireson worked for the Hoare family elsewhere.
Listing NGR: ST4189426751
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263145
- 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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