Pen Pits
PEN PITS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1274243
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Pen Pits
- Statutory Address:
- PEN PITS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1274243
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1982
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Mar-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Pen Pits
- Statutory Address 1:
- PEN PITS
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:
- PEN PITS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Pen Selwood
- National Grid Reference:
- ST7669831531
Details
489/2/99
PEN SELWOOD
PEN PITS
03-MAR-82
II*
House. 1935. By P.J.B. Harland; for composer Sir Arthur Bliss. Cavity brickwork rendered and reinforced concrete; ashphalt flat roofs; rendered chimney stacks. In International Functionalist style of complex plan; 2 storeys, the North elevation in 6 ordered bays; with steel casement windows bays 1-5 a formal panelled treatment, bay 6 has concrete slab and single wing wall porch protecting simple door with circular window alongside, with deep stair window over; return, set back, to West: tanks structure on roof. South elevation has 'ocean liner' characteristics, featuring wide sun patio at first floor level with steel ladder and railings with wide, open loggia, in composite steel and concrete construction, and also almost continuous window wall to living room. On the roof, suspended between the water tank and chimney is the wireless aerial.
INTERIOR retains practically all original features including doors, door furniture, bookcases, fireplaces, linoleum in dining room and carefully designed changes of level.
The property is constructed within the Pen Pits Quern Quarries. Scheduled Ancient Monument (Somerset County No 470).
SOURCE: Yorke, F.R.S., The Modern House in England, pp.70-71.
Listing NGR: ST7669831531
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 415757
- 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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