Wellmans and Byron House and Front Boundary Railings
WELLMANS AND BYRON HOUSE AND FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1265899
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Wellmans and Byron House and Front Boundary Railings
- Statutory Address:
- WELLMANS AND BYRON HOUSE AND FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, EAST STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1265899
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Wellmans and Byron House and Front Boundary Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- WELLMANS AND BYRON HOUSE AND FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, EAST 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:
- WELLMANS AND BYRON HOUSE AND FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, EAST 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:
- ST4646219294
Details
ST4619
12/249
19.4.61
MARTOCK CP
EAST STREET(South side)Wellmans and Byron House,and front boundary railings
GII
Formerly one farmhouse,now two cottages.C17.Ham stone ashlar;plain clay tiles over stone slate base courses between stepped coped gables;brick end and intermediate chimney stacks.Two storeys,four bays.Hollow chamfer mullioned windows,the upper with separate labels,but paired under common labels below,mostly two-light;those to Wellmans mostly rectangular leaded whereas to Byron House they are diamond leaded:between bays one and two a C19 door under rectangular fanlight in plain recess;between bays three and four a cambered arched doorway,with the label stepped up over,having boarded and studded door.On the west gable two two-light mullioned windows without labels;outshut to rear of Byron House.
Interiors not seen.
About four metres north of both houses are wrought iron railings,set on low stone walls,having alternate small loops and cast iron arrow points,with C20 gates opposite both doors,with curved returns at both ends,the whole adding to both the setting of the houses and the streetscene.(VAG Report, unpublished SRO,February1977).
Listing NGR: ST4646219294
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 423583
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in February, (1977)
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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