THE NEST AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL

THE NEST AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL, 100, HIGHER STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1265668
Date first listed:: 28-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:: THE NEST AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL
Statutory Address:: THE NEST AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL, 100, HIGHER STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1265668
Date first listed:: 28-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:: THE NEST AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL
Statutory Address 1:: THE NEST AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL, 100, 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:: THE NEST AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL, 100, HIGHER STREET

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Martock
National Grid Reference:: ST 45650 17848

Details

No. 100 etc, Higher Street. 16/268 11/268

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No. 100 etc, Higher Street. 16/268 11/268

------------------------------------ ST4517 MARTOCK CP HIGHER STREET (South side) BOWER HINTON

16/268 No. 100 (The Nest), and front boundary wall (formerly listed as the The Nest) 19.4.61

GV II

House in row. Late C18, modified and extended in C19. Ham stone ashlar facade, cut and squared elsewhere; probably a Welsh slate roof of shallow pitch hidden behind parapet; brick chimney stacks. Two storeys, 4 bays, of which bay 1 is of a different build. Plinth, eaves, cornice, plain shallow parapet with thin coping: composite sash windows of 4+8+4 panes, the bottom glazing bars removed from the upper windows and lower bay 1; the lower bays 2 + 4 windows are 12-pane sashes in keystoned architraves: to lower bay 3 a 6-panel door in architrave, up 6 steps, protected by open timber porch with metal bell-hip roof. Interior not seen. About 3m north of the house an ashlar wall on rubble base, with plinth and thin coping, upsweeps at ends, averaging 1.5m high, no central gate; adding to the setting of the house and to the streetscene.

Listing NGR: ST4565017848

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Legacy System number:: 424132
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.