Mansion House Inn
MANSION HOUSE INN, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297162
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Mansion House Inn
- Statutory Address:
- MANSION HOUSE INN, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297162
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Mansion House Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANSION HOUSE INN, HIGH 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:
- MANSION HOUSE INN, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bridgwater
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 29725 37027
Details
BRIDGWATER
ST2937SE HIGH STREET 736-1/10/114 (North side) 23/01/74 Mansion House Inn
GV II
House, now public house. Mid C18. Painted brick facade; painted stone cornices to eaves and ground floor, rusticated quoins raised to form kneelers to C20 coping, cills and plinth; steep-pitched roof with late C19 crested ridge, pantile to the rear and double Roman tile to the front with brick stacks to gable ends. Painted rubblestone left return, rendered to the top. Double-depth plan with rear extension to the left making L-plan. 2 storeys; 4-window range. Windows to first floor are to sides, flanking a wide space for inn sign. 4 recessed panels below eaves over gauged brick flat arches with keyed lintels to C19 horned 2/2-pane sash windows in forward frames. The ground floor has flat arches to 6 early C20 windows of various widths; they and left-of-centre door have overlights, those over the 3 windows to left are coloured and leaded; narrow vertical windows flanking C19 double 2-panel doors have 3 square panes, those to sides have 3 rows of 2 panes. The left return is of painted rubblestone and brick rendered to the top; flat gauged brick arches to wide 2/2-pane sash windows to right; double 2-panel doors with bolection moulding below brick and timber lintel. The rear wing to left has two 2-light casement windows at eaves level; to ground-floor left a timber lintel to fixed window of 2 rows of 4 panes probably a former doorway; to right a late C19 tripartite horned 2/2-pane sash window. INTERIOR: room to rear has open fireplace with a segmental arch backing onto main block. The upper room has mid C18 fireplace to right end and an unusually high ceiling. The roof, unseen, is said to have 4 A-frame trusses and 2 rows of dowelled purlins. Built on the site of an earlier church house, for the rebuilding of which the corporation appointed a committee in 1765. It functioned in the later C18 as a school and then an inn, the upper floor being used as an assembly room. (VCH: Somerset: London: 1992-: 233).
Listing NGR: ST2972537027
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373929
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dunning, R W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1992), 233
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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