8 AND 9, CORNHILL
8 AND 9, CORNHILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297188
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 8 AND 9, CORNHILL
- Statutory Address:
- 8 AND 9, CORNHILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297188
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 8 AND 9, CORNHILL
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8 AND 9, CORNHILL
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:
- 8 AND 9, CORNHILL
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 29867 37022
Details
BRIDGWATER
ST2937SE CORNHILL 736-1/10/40 (South side) 16/12/74 Nos.8 AND 9
GV II
Offices, now two shops. c1860-70. Limestone ashlar. 4 storeys; symmetrical 6-window range. Rectangular plan with large 3-storey rear wing to the right. Italianate High Renaissance style. A balustraded parapet with 4 piers stands above a modillion and dentilled cornice returned to the right with a foliate frieze below; rusticated quoins; moulded architraves to the 2/2-pane sash windows which diminish in size on each floor; a string course with a narrow foliate frieze at third-floor cill level; cornices, moulded architraves and consoles to window cills which project from a string course to the second floor; segmental pediments over first-floor windows which have a cornice at cill level, probably to former fascia. INTERIOR not inspected. Similar design to other commercial premises at Nos 10 & 11 (qv). (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: South and West Somerset: London: 1958-: 98; Squibbs PJ: Squibbs' History of Bridgwater: Chichester: 1988-: PL 67).
Listing NGR: ST2987337013
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373855
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)
Squibbs, P J, Squibbs History of Bridgwater, (1988), 67
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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