RAILINGS TO OLD BINCOMBE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1281903
Date first listed:: 06-Sep-1974
List Entry Name:: RAILINGS TO OLD BINCOMBE
Statutory Address:: RAILINGS TO OLD BINCOMBE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1281903
Date first listed:: 06-Sep-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Dec-1993
List Entry Name:: RAILINGS TO OLD BINCOMBE
Statutory Address 1:: RAILINGS TO OLD BINCOMBE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: RAILINGS TO OLD BINCOMBE

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 43719 09954

Details

CREWKERNE

ST4309 BINCOMBE 876-1/6/23 Railings to Old Bincombe 06/09/74 (Formerly Listed as: BINCOMBE Gatepiers with gates and railings at entrance to Bincombe House grounds)

II

Wall, gate piers, gates and railings. Mid C19. Ham Hill stone ashlar wall and gate piers, wrought-iron gates and railings. Tall gate piers to the left with stepped pyramidal caps support elaborate double gates. The central horizontal rail has alternate pierced quatrefoils and quincunx, below it are ornamented S scrolls between the straight verticals and resting on it are single ornamented scrolls. Each gate has an inverted semi-circle to the upper half below a row of palmette-type motifs, and large ornamented S scrolls to the top, higher toward the centre. The piers to the service entrance gates to the right are plain, with pyramidal caps; the double gates have long/short rails, and a central horizontal rail of 4 fluers-de-lys in circles. Between these are approx 10m of plinth-type wall which has sloping ashlar top on slabs arranged in a herring-bone; the railings are low with scroll tops above a horizontal rail.

Listing NGR: ST4367009884

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 390301
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.