Scott Gould House (Almshouses)
SCOTT GOULD HOUSE (ALMSHOUSES), NEW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307352
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Scott Gould House (Almshouses)
- Statutory Address:
- SCOTT GOULD HOUSE (ALMSHOUSES), NEW STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307352
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Scott Gould House (Almshouses)
- Statutory Address 1:
- SCOTT GOULD HOUSE (ALMSHOUSES), NEW STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- SCOTT GOULD HOUSE (ALMSHOUSES), 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:
- SCOTT GOULD HOUSE (ALMSHOUSES), NEW STREET
- Statutory Address:
- SCOTT GOULD HOUSE (ALMSHOUSES), NORTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Somerton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST4912928674
Details
ST49NW SOMERTON CP NORTH STREET (east side)
9/201 Scott Gould House
(Almshouses)
-
GV II
Almshouses. 1866, restored 1981. Local lias stone cut and squared, with Ham stone dressings; asbestos cement slate roof
between coped gables with hipped corner; stone ashlar chimney stacks. 'L' plan; 2 storeys, 5 bay elevation to north
Street and 3 bay return to New Street. Plinth, band course, gables above all first floor windows; hollow chamfered
mullioned windows with square labels having horizontal bar casements,2-light above and 3 light below, with extra lower
window between bays 4 and 5, North Street, and between each bay on north Street elevation; to bay 3 in North Street
chamfered doorway with flat arched head and square label, and large boarded door, no window or gable over, but there
are two plaques giving original and restoration dates. Interiors not seen. In an important corner position with
considerable streetscape value. The almshouses built by Mrs Sophie Scott Gould of North Curry as 6 dwellings for widows
and single women. (VCH, Volume III, 1974).
Listing NGR: ST4912928674
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263009
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1974)
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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