No 17 and Attached Walls and Outbuildings to the Rear
NO 17 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS TO THE REAR, 17, NORTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297168
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1974
- List Entry Name:
- No 17 and Attached Walls and Outbuildings to the Rear
- Statutory Address:
- NO 17 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS TO THE REAR, 17, NORTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297168
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1974
- List Entry Name:
- No 17 and Attached Walls and Outbuildings to the Rear
- Statutory Address 1:
- NO 17 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS TO THE REAR, 17, NORTH 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:
- NO 17 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS TO THE REAR, 17, NORTH 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 29397 36990
Details
BRIDGWATER
ST2936 NORTH STREET 736-1/8/145 (South West side) 16/12/74 No.17 and attached walls and outbuildings to the rear
II
House. Late C17/early C18. Flemish-bond brick front, cob to original rear wall, late C19 English-bond 2-storey rear left wing, C20 rear right wing, steep-pitched pantile roof, tall brick stack forward of left gable end. 2-unit through-passage plan, with large stack heating larger room on left. 2 storeys; 2-window range. Some crown glass. The windows to the first floor are at eaves level, a 3/3-pane sash window to left and a tall C19 two-light casement window with small panes to right; this has no cill but 2 cambered brick arches, one directly above the other, over a 6/6-pane sash window in a forward frame; cambered arches to a similar window to right and C19 right-of-centre 6-panel door, glazed to the top with bolection moulding to panels above beaded lower panels. A wide blank wall to left has traces of a bricked-up former doorway. INTERIOR: The former door was in a lobby to left of open fire. Now a cupboard, the internal door is planked with fine wrought-iron strap hinges; this room, to left, has a chamfered cross-beam. 2 rooms to right of passage, that to front has C20 panelling over brick nogging to a timber-studded partition wall. In the C20 kitchen, formerly outside, is a brick-lined well approx 4 feet in diameter, now covered. C20 stairs against the former rear wall. The roof has threaded purlins and some rough-hewn rafters. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: an English-bond brick wall, approx 2m high, attached to the rear right extends approx 30m. C19 English-bond brick outhouses including a laundry, with pantile roofs are attached to the rear left. History: Deeds of 1727 and 1728 mention the house having existed in 1652 and the transaction of a sale between Joseph Pople of Bridgwater and John Pople of the same address. They also name the house as an inn called The Blew Anchor in 1728. (Deeds: 1727-1728).
Listing NGR: ST2939736990
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373955
- 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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