Northover House (Mansion House Hotel) And Front Boundary Railings
NORTHOVER HOUSE (MANSION HOUSE HOTEL) AND FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, ROMAN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267308
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Northover House (Mansion House Hotel) And Front Boundary Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NORTHOVER HOUSE (MANSION HOUSE HOTEL) AND FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, ROMAN ROAD
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- Date:
- 2003-08-31
- Reference:
- IOE01/11349/05
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267308
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Northover House (Mansion House Hotel) And Front Boundary Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NORTHOVER HOUSE (MANSION HOUSE HOTEL) AND FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, ROMAN ROAD
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:
- NORTHOVER HOUSE (MANSION HOUSE HOTEL) AND FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, ROMAN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ilchester
- National Grid Reference:
- ST5225322901
Details
Northover House, etc., Roman Road,
10/82
8/82
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ST5222
10/82
19.4.61
ILCHESTER CP
ROMAN ROAD (West side)
NORTHOVER
Northover House (Mansion House Hotel); and front boundary railings
GV
II
Large detached house. C17, refronted early C19. Local lias stone cut and squared, Ham stone dressings and facade;
hipped Welsh slate roof with wide eaves soffite having pairs of brackets at intervals; brick chimney stacks. Two
storeys with attic, 7 bays. Sash windows in plain openings, 9-pane above and 15-pane below; to lower bay 4 a 6-panel
door in segmental arched opening, set in classical style stone porch with solid sides, with Tuscan columns in antis,
full entablature with metopes and guttae, flat roof. On south-west elevation are hollow-chamfer mullioned windows in
wave-mould recesses, without labels, 5 light below and 4-light above; lower extension to rear with reproduction
mullioned windows. Interior not seen. About one metre from house, with return to north-east corner, are railings with
cast-iron spearpoints and heavily decorated braces to standards; matching gates inside porch; all contributing to the
setting of the house and to the streetscene.
Listing NGR: ST5225322901
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 418786
- 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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