High Cross

HIGH CROSS, HIGHER STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1307678
Date first listed:
19-Apr-1961
Statutory Address:
HIGH CROSS, HIGHER STREET
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1307678
Date first listed:
19-Apr-1961
Statutory Address 1:
HIGH CROSS, HIGHER STREET

Location

Statutory Address:
HIGH CROSS, HIGHER STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
West and Middle Chinnock
National Grid Reference:
ST 46731 13162

Details

WEST CHINNOCK CP HIGHER STREET (West side) ST41SE 3/217 High Cross 19.4.61 - II

Cottage. Early C17. Local stone cut and squared with Ham stone dressings; Welsh slate roof between coped gables; rendered end chimney stacks. 2-storeys, 3-bay symetrical front. 4-light ovolo mould mullioned windows with leaded lights to lower bays -1 and -3, with moulded chamfered arched doorway to bay -2, all under a continuous string course raised above doorway; above doorway a stone plaque incised 'ANO DNI 1604 R.W."; 3-light leaded casements to first floor with exposed wall plate over. Interior not seen, but SANHS report (1978) speaks of an original continuous outshut, half-post and truss structure, timber framed partitions and chamfered beams with step and run-out stops, a fireplace and a former smoke-bay.

Listing NGR: ST4673113162

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263775
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Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society in Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, (1978)

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