Factory to East of Number 3
FACTORY TO EAST OF NUMBER 3, ABBEY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281901
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Factory to East of Number 3
- Statutory Address:
- FACTORY TO EAST OF NUMBER 3, ABBEY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281901
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Factory to East of Number 3
- Statutory Address 1:
- FACTORY TO EAST OF NUMBER 3, ABBEY 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:
- FACTORY TO EAST OF NUMBER 3, ABBEY 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:
- ST4406709856
Details
ST4409
876-1/7/15
06/09/74
CREWKERNE
ABBEY STREET
(South side)
Factory to east of No.3
GV
II
Factory. c1880s. Coursed limestone rubble with Ham Hill stone
quoins and dressings; slate roof. Palazzo style. 3 storeys;
10-window range, comprising 5 bays articulated by pilasters
rising from plinth through continuous platband to entablature.
Paired windows with small panes to the tops and larger ones
below, separated by square-section mullions. The attic above
the entablature has 8/2 casements in a recess with a rolled
arris to the top. The first-floor has tall round-arch windows
of 16/6-panes over a platband; the ground-floor has similar
but flat-arched windows. INTERIOR not inspected. HISTORY: the
West Somerset and Devon Shirt Factory moved from Market Street
in 1875, marked on O.S. map of 1886 as a shirt factory.
(Victoria County History: Somerset: Oxford: 1978-: P.9).
Listing NGR: ST4406709856
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390284
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1978), 9
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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