4 AND 6, FORE STREET
4 AND 6, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280344
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 4 AND 6, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 4 AND 6, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280344
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 4 AND 6, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 4 AND 6, FORE 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:
- 4 AND 6, FORE STREET
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 29999 37103
Details
BRIDGWATER
ST3037 FORE STREET 736-1/6/64 (North side) Nos.4 AND 6
GV II
Two shops. c1880s/90s. Flemish-bond brick with stone bands and dressings; plain tile hipped roof with terra-cotta finials; ornamental brickwork and projecting terracotta dragons to the corners of a left-of-centre ridge stack. Double-depth plan. Queen Anne style. 3 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. 2 forward-facing gables with deep modillioned eaves and resting on a similar cornice each have an oculus in the apex. Stone bands at lintel level and string-courses at cill level. The second floor has two 3-light stone mullioned and transomed windows with 4 small panes to the tops, under wide moulded segmental arches with carved blocking and plain keystones dying into the cornice. These flank a central single-light window with 6 small panes above the transom. The first floor has a similar window to the centre flanked by 2-light canted bays with stone mullions and transoms, carved corbelling below and cornices with blocking courses above. The C20 shopfronts are flanked by pilasters with rusticated blocking topped by urn finials on foliate panelled blocks. INTERIORS not inspected. Included for group value.
Listing NGR: ST2999637104
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373882
- 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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