Cornhill House
CORNHILL HOUSE, 17, MARKET SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281916
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Cornhill House
- Statutory Address:
- CORNHILL HOUSE, 17, MARKET SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281916
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Cornhill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CORNHILL HOUSE, 17, MARKET SQUARE
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:
- CORNHILL HOUSE, 17, MARKET SQUARE
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 44131 09861
Details
CREWKERNE
ST4409 MARKET SQUARE 876-1/7/92 (North East side) 12/06/50 No.17 Cornhill House
GV II
House, now shops. C18, refronted c1810. MATERIALS: Ham Hill stone ashlar, with coursed rubble to rest; double-pitch roof, hipped slate to the front and tile to the rear with stepped stone coping; brick stacks to gable ends and ridge. PLAN: double-depth plan with lower C18 gabled rear range. EXTERIOR: Regency style. 2 storeys; 3-window range. A cornice and blocking course spans the facade and the returns. The slightly projecting outer bays have 3/3-pane sashes to the second-floor, and 6/6-panes to the first-floor. The second floor of the central bay has a 3/3-pane sash, flanked by ones of 2/2-panes; below this is a shallow first-floor bow-window of a 6/6-pane-tripartite sash, resting on a long balcony with Regency-style iron-work, flanked by 6/6-pane sashes and a continuous cill-band; the corners of the balcony were supported by Tuscan-style columns, only the damaged left-hand one remains; the centre is supported by a canted bay shop window. To the far corners of the ground floor are traces of banded rustication with a platband to the top which continues along the returns. The ground-floor of the left return has a former 5-light hollow-moulded stone-mullioned window, now altered, with an inserted vent; the first-floor has a labelled hoodmould over a C20 casement. The rear range is lower and older, of squared coursed rubble with 6/6-pane tripartite sashes under wooden lintels, to the left. INTERIOR: the ground-floor is altered. The upper floors are essentially early C19 in style with late C19 alterations. The main first-floor room has a late C19 white marble fireplace and stiff-leaf embellishments to a reeded cornice, and reeded panels to a 6-panel door. To the left of the second-floor is a mid C19 register hob-grate. The rear range is altered.
Listing NGR: ST4413209867
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390371
- 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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