Nos 1, 2 and 3 and Attached Verandah
NOS 1, 2 AND 3 AND ATTACHED VERANDAH, 1, 2 AND 3, FRIARN LAWN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280310
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 1, 2 and 3 and Attached Verandah
- Statutory Address:
- NOS 1, 2 AND 3 AND ATTACHED VERANDAH, 1, 2 AND 3, FRIARN LAWN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280310
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 1, 2 and 3 and Attached Verandah
- Statutory Address 1:
- NOS 1, 2 AND 3 AND ATTACHED VERANDAH, 1, 2 AND 3, FRIARN LAWN
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:
- NOS 1, 2 AND 3 AND ATTACHED VERANDAH, 1, 2 AND 3, FRIARN LAWN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bridgwater
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 29647 36824
Details
BRIDGWATER
ST2936NE FRIARN LAWN 736-1/11/75 (North side) 16/12/74 Nos.1, 2 AND 3 and attached verandah
GV II
Terrace of 3 houses. c1820. Flemish bond brick painted to front of Nos 1 & 2, continuous pantile roof hipped to the left, brick stacks to party walls and one to right gable end has a brick cornice. Each house is one room deep with various rear service rooms and extensions. Picturesque Regency style. 3 storeys with basements. Nos 1 & 3 were 2-window range; No.2 to centre of 3 window-range; No.3 was extended to right in 1827. Flat arches to 2-light casement windows on upper floors, all with margin panes, those to first floor are full-height; below the cills an elaborate cast-iron trellised verandah spans front with semicircular arches in front of the doors and virtually elliptical ones in front of windows, the lower part forms a barrier to the basement areas. The door to No.1 on the left is to left, others are to centre; architraves are Regency style with reeded jambs and lintels and roundels set in squares at the corners. Windows to ground floor are mostly sashes with various thin glazing bars, No.2 has C20 French windows to left. No.3 projects forward to right, it has a void to ground-floor where former right-of-way existed. The first floor bay has a hipped roof and cast-iron balcony; the floor is supported by a repositioned cast-iron beam. INTERIOR: The ground floor of No.1 has a reeded cornice, small elliptical recesses flanking late C19 black marble fireplace, and reeded jambs to the window architrave. No.3 has a brick vaulted cellar, the front wall of which is red limestone rubble, possibly indicating site of former older building; a well approx 30m deep and 1.5m across, cut into the subsoil, has approx 1m of diminishing diameter circles of bricks to top. The ground floor has a single storey lean-to at rear; room to left has 2 elliptical arches to left and a large one to centre of right wall; a dogleg staircase; room to first floor right, built in 1827, has a high ceiling, restored reeded cornice, plaster ceiling rose, a repositioned C18 fireplace and 6-panel door almost 2m high with added mouldings. The French windows are set in an elliptical bay.
Listing NGR: ST2964736824
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373891
- 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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