Legion House and Attached Wall to Right
LEGION HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL TO RIGHT, 15, CASTLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1280623
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Legion House and Attached Wall to Right
- Statutory Address:
- LEGION HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL TO RIGHT, 15, CASTLE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1280623
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Legion House and Attached Wall to Right
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEGION HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL TO RIGHT, 15, CASTLE 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:
- LEGION HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL TO RIGHT, 15, CASTLE 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 29916 37143
Details
BRIDGWATER
ST2937SE CASTLE STREET 736-1/10/29 (South side) 24/03/50 No.15 Legion House and attached wall to right
GV II*
House, now British Legion premises. Mid C18. Flemish-bond brick, stone moulded coping to the high parapet (rebuilt), doorcase, stepped keystones and bracketed cills; double Roman tile roof, hipped to the rear wing, with brick stacks to gable ends. Double-depth plan with rear wing to right and C20 single-storey rear extensions. 2 storeys with attic; symmetrical 5-window range. Dentilled brick cornice beneath parapet. Shallow segmental gauged brick arches to 6/6-pane sash windows with some crown glass, and brick platbands between floors and below ground-floor windows. To left is a segmental brick arch to the basement opening. Semicircular steps up to 8-panel door, the top 2 panels are quadrants with small triangular panel between and large bronze knocker; the doorcase has a moulded cornice on consoles over an eared and moulded architrave with a keystone. The right return has flat gauged brick arches to late C19 horned 2/2-pane sash windows to left and a gauged brick semicircular-arched stair window to right. To first floor of rear wing is a mid C19 canted bay with a large 6/6-pane sash window and some crown glass, to right are late C19 paired fixed windows with semicircular stone arches and bracketed cills to each. INTERIOR: the stairs above the first floor have a moulded rail and stick balusters and two c1770 plaster panels depicting Roman life. Room to left of first floor has C19 cornice, skirting boards and a 4-panel door. Room to first floor of rear wing has an eared architrave to door with 6 raised and fielded panels, large C19 elliptical-arched recess to rear, cornice with an ornamental frieze on the ceiling, painted slate fireplace, foliate plaster ceiling rose and the architrave to canted bay window has added classical detail. The front door has plain unmoulded panels to rear and a large L hinge and lock. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached by a vertical joint to right of facade, a high Flemish-bond brick wall reaches just above the platband. To centre a stone lintel to blocked door, to left a flat gauged brick arch to blocked window, probably openings to former conservatory to rear. The right wall continues into Queen Street, the forward part rebuilt. The terraces of houses in Castle Street form an important group, unusual for their scale and ambition outside London's West End. (VCH: Somerset: London: 1992-: 200).
Listing NGR: ST2991637143
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373845
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dunning, R W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1992), 200
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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