Attached Walls, Railings and Privy to Numbers 28 and 28A Hillside Wellsway
ATTACHED WALLS, RAILINGS AND PRIVY TO NUMBERS 28 AND 28A, ABBEY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281902
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Attached Walls, Railings and Privy to Numbers 28 and 28A Hillside Wellsway
- Statutory Address:
- ATTACHED WALLS, RAILINGS AND PRIVY TO NUMBERS 28 AND 28A, ABBEY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281902
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Attached Walls, Railings and Privy to Numbers 28 and 28A Hillside Wellsway
- Statutory Address 1:
- ATTACHED WALLS, RAILINGS AND PRIVY TO NUMBERS 28 AND 28A, ABBEY STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- HILLSIDE, 28A, ABBEY STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- WELLSWAY, 28, ABBEY 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:
- ATTACHED WALLS, RAILINGS AND PRIVY TO NUMBERS 28 AND 28A, ABBEY STREET
- Statutory Address:
- HILLSIDE, 28A, ABBEY STREET
- Statutory Address:
- WELLSWAY, 28, 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:
- ST 43939 09874
Details
CREWKERNE
ST4309 ABBEY STREET 876-1/6/13 (North side) 06/09/74 Nos.28 AND 28A Wellsway (No.28), Hillside (No.28A), & attached walls, railings and privy
GV II
House, now 2 dwellings. C17, refronted and internally remodelled early C19. MATERIALS: Ham Hill stone ashlar facade and coursed limestone rubble to the rest; double-pitched, hipped slate roof with brick stacks to each end of the ridge and to end walls. PLAN: double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, symmetrical 5-window range. Flat stone arches; first-floor windows are 3/6-pane sashes, those to the ground floor are 6/6-panes, all in rendered reveals. The central doorcase is Regency-style, with reeded jambs and lintel, roundel-blocks to the corners, and a small projecting cornice. No.28 (Wellsway) occupies the 2 bays to the right and the right return, where there are three C20 windows to the first floor, a C20 garage entrance to the far right, and to the inside-right a c1840 six-panel door, glazed to the top 4 panels, with panelled reveals and a C20 porch. INTERIOR of No.28A (Hillside) to the left has a stone-flagged hall and an open-well, open-string staircase with a swept mahogany rail, stick balusters and a turned newel to the rear; above it is a margin-paned skylight with diagonal bars to the centre. The ground floor has 6-panel doors with added reeded moulding to the panels, some Regency-style fire surrounds with late C19 grates to the ground floor and mid C19 cast-iron arch-plate register grates and 4-panel doors to the first floor. Stone steps lead to the cellar which is lias stone-flagged with a drainage channel, 2 chamfered cross beams, that to the right has wrought-iron hooks and rests on a lower axial beam; the rear right-hand corner against No.28 has a heavy chamfered beam supporting rough joists and wide limewashed hardwood boards. An exposed roof truss to the right has a king post with diagonal struts. (INTERIOR of No.28 not inspected). SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: A Ham Hill rubblestone revetment wall is attached to the right (south-west) corner; level to the top, it increases in height as it curves downhill to the left, enclosing a front garden and supporting spearhead railings with urn finials; double gates are close to the house, at the base of steps up to garden level. A high Flemish-bond brick wall, rubblestone to the outer face with Ham Hill stone coping, is attached to the left-hand side of the house to front and encloses a rear garden approx 30m square to the rear right corner of which is a rubblestone privy.
Listing NGR: ST4393909874
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390297
- 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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