20, CHURCH STREET

20, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1281888
Date first listed:
12-Jun-1950
List Entry Name:
20, CHURCH STREET
Statutory Address:
20, CHURCH STREET
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1281888
Date first listed:
12-Jun-1950
List Entry Name:
20, CHURCH STREET
Statutory Address 1:
20, CHURCH 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
20, CHURCH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Crewkerne
National Grid Reference:
ST 44019 09774

Details

CREWKERNE

ST4409 CHURCH STREET 876-1/7/42 (North side) 12/06/50 No.20

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House. C18 rear, refronted 1815. MATERIALS: Ham Hill stone ashlar with half-hipped slate roof and brick stacks to gable ends. Double-depth plan. Classical style. PLAN: double-depth plan with C19 brick rear extension to the left. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. All windows are 6/6-pane sashes, those to the first-floor in moulded architraves; taller sashes to the ground-floor set in recesses with shallow aprons between cill and plinth. The 5-panel door has one horizontal panel to the centre, all raised-and-fielded; it is set in a casement-moulded round arch with a traceried fanlight. The ground-floor has banded rustication, and all the openings have rusticated voussoirs reaching a low platband. Dentilled cornice beneath platband. To the right-of-centre, below the parapet, is a large hopperhead and downpipe. The rear extension has a segmental arch to a cast-iron industrial-type window. INTERIOR: the central hall has a semi-circular arch toward the rear and a small foliate plaster ceiling rose at the foot of the dogleg staircase which is to the rear left; it has stick balusters, fretted ends and wreathed mahogany rail and curtail step; 6-panel doors, the front rooms have a small panel to the centre, those to the rear are C18 6-panel. Panelled shutters to the ground-floor windows, those to the front have applied reeded moulding. Front room to the left has a Regency-style white marble fireplace and floral and dentilled embellishment to a reeded cornice; rear left room has an open fire, the stone lintel of which is now covered over. The front room to the right has a reeded cornice with key-pattern freize, and some cornices remain on the first floor. HISTORY: the deeds of the house mention a cellar and a well beneath the former kitchen to the rear right.

Listing NGR: ST4402109775

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
390321
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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