36 and 38 and Attached Walls and Railings

36 AND 38 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, EAST STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1279519
Date first listed:
29-Jul-1976
List Entry Name:
36 and 38 and Attached Walls and Railings
Statutory Address:
36 AND 38 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, EAST STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1279519
Date first listed:
29-Jul-1976
List Entry Name:
36 and 38 and Attached Walls and Railings
Statutory Address 1:
36 AND 38 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
36 AND 38 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, EAST STREET

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

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Ilminster
National Grid Reference:
ST 36341 14562

Details

ILMINSTER

ST3614 EAST STREET 1939-1/7/46 (South side) 29/07/76 Nos.36 AND 38 and attached walls and railings

GV II

House, now 2 houses. Probably C16/early C17, remodelled in mid C19. Limestone rubble with roughcast to first floor; steep pantile roof with brick stacks to right and centre. Probably originally 3-unit through-passage plan remodelled in C19 as two 2-unit plans. All windows to the present houses have margin panes, forward frames and wooden lintels, 6/6-pane sashes to ground floor and 3/6-panes above, some with old glass. Both doors are mid C19 with 2 vertical panels glazed to the top, set in fretted, trellised and pedimented porches. The rear has lower 2-storey lean-to with C20 windows and one C19 casement with small panes. INTERIOR: The only remaining features of the former house are in the right-hand house, No.38, which has a chamfered beam to the right-hand room, a quartered ceiling to the left-hand room, which is partly below an upper room to the right of No.40, and a jointed cruck to room above. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: limestone rubble walls with Ham Hill stone capping attached to right, surmounted by spearhead railings to the front with urn finials and matching working gate with semi-circle to lower half.

Listing NGR: ST3634214562

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
383409
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.

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