Ilminster Turnpike
ILMINSTER TURNPIKE, KINGSTONE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307443
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Ilminster Turnpike
- Statutory Address:
- ILMINSTER TURNPIKE, KINGSTONE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307443
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Ilminster Turnpike
- Statutory Address 1:
- ILMINSTER TURNPIKE, KINGSTONE HILL
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:
- ILMINSTER TURNPIKE, KINGSTONE HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dowlish Wake
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 37654 13554
Details
DOWLISH WAKE CP KINGSTONE HILL (West side) ST31SE KINGSTONE CROSS Ilminster Turnpike 2/43 -
GV II
Former toll house, now private house. Early C19, extended in C20. Ham stone rubble with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof between stepped coped gables having gabletted finials; brick chimney stacks. Two storeys, 3 bays x 1 bay x l bay. Entrance on north flank, with hollow-chamfered mullioned windows, 2-light with label, to lower bay 1, and boarded door under C20 timber hood bay 3; bay 2 has a projecting chimney stack with small gable. East gable, abutting main road; has another 2-light mullioned window with label, rectangular-leaded, to first floor, and below it is a chamfered cambered-arched doorway with square label, now part-blocked with a casement window inserted; a GVIR letterbox built into will to right of doorway, South elevation flanks the miner road and is rendered on bay 1; mullioned windows to lower bays 2 and 3; horizontal-bar casements to both levels bay 1 and upper bays 2 and 3. Single-storey extensions against west gable. Interior not seen, The main road was turnpiked by the Ilminster Trust in 1759, but the date of this toll-house not known. (Bentley J.B and Murless B.J Somerset Roads, SIAS, 1985).
Listing NGR: ST3765413554
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262170
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bentley, J B, Murless, B J, Somerset Roads: The Legacy of the Turnpikes Western Somerset, (1985)
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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