Uncle Tom's Cabin Public House
UNCLE TOM'S CABIN PUBLIC HOUSE, 51, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1274137
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Uncle Tom's Cabin Public House
- Statutory Address:
- UNCLE TOM'S CABIN PUBLIC HOUSE, 51, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1274137
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Uncle Tom's Cabin Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- UNCLE TOM'S CABIN PUBLIC HOUSE, 51, HIGH 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:
- UNCLE TOM'S CABIN PUBLIC HOUSE, 51, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wincanton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST7152128701
Details
ST7128
8/146
WINCANTON CP
HIGH STREET (North side)
No 51 (Uncle Tom's Cabin Public House)
24.3.61
GV II
Inn, formerly house. At least C18. Local stone rubble, colourwashed on South elevation; thatched roof, half hipped on East side; brick chimney stack. 'L' plan. 2 storeys, 2-bay front. Above are early pattern 3-light wood framed windows with leaded panes; below a 9-pane sash window to bay 1, under timber lintol, then a C20 boarded door in plain opening; to bay 2 an early C19 composite opening of two 9-pane casements, a stable-type door, and a 2-light small pane casement, much distorted, under continuous hood - possibly representing an earlier shop. On East return to Flingers Lane are two later sash windows with door between them, to ground foor; above three 3-light early leaded casements, one now blocked.
Interior only partly seen; chamfered main crossbeam, no stops; small winding stair (enclosed) in North West corner; bar fittings and layout could be of 1861, when this first became an Inn; bench seats around walls. (Sweetman, G. History of Wincanton, c1904).
Listing NGR: ST7152128701
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 416109
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sweetman, G, History of Wincanton, (1903)
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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