Bellplot House and Attached Walls
BELLPLOT HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- 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
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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:
- BELLPLOT HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chard Town
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 32039 08596
Details
CHARD
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 374145
- 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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