BELLPLOT HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS

BELLPLOT HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1280467
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1976
List Entry Name:: BELLPLOT HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS
Statutory Address:: BELLPLOT HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1280467
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1976
List Entry Name:: BELLPLOT HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: BELLPLOT HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, HIGH STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: BELLPLOT HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, HIGH STREET

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District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Chard Town
National Grid Reference:: ST 32039 08596

Details

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ST3308 HIGH STREET 756-1/4/117 (North side) 29/07/76 Bellplot House and attached walls

GV II

House. c1840, altered c1880. Squared flint with vermiculated Bath stone dressings and vermiculated quoins; slate roof; brick stacks. L-shaped plan, with later infill to form a square and single-storey extension to right. 2 storeys, 3-window range. Windows to first floor are 8/12-pane sashes, those to the front set in moulded architrave with consoles to the sills; the ground floor has a 12/12-pane sash to centre in plain surround, flanked by very shallow rectangular bays, each with a pair of 12/12-pane sashes to the front and no windows to the sides. The left return has a rectangular porch to the centre with vermiculated quoins and moulded cornice. The shallow-pitch hipped roof with rolled lead hips has wide eaves on brackets. 2 tall brick stacks to each return. INTERIOR: basically early C19 style, but with major alterations c1880. Large entrance hall with fine open-well, open-string staircase with carved brackets and turned balusters. Front rooms have original reeded cornices and c1880 skirtings and picture rails. 4-panel doors to ground floor, 6-panel to first floor. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the wall to the street front is of squared flint; it is in 7 slightly-ramped sections connected by piers with laced limestone quoins and moulded caps. The C20 gates and gatepiers to the left have been repositioned. A limestone rubble wall attached to the right, extends approx 120m northwards.

Listing NGR: ST3203908596

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Legacy System number:: 374145
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.