GOSS HOUSE

GOSS HOUSE, 26, HIGH STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1308055
Date first listed:: 08-Nov-1949
List Entry Name:: GOSS HOUSE
Statutory Address:: GOSS HOUSE, 26, HIGH STREET

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Date:: 2002-05-02
Reference:: IOE01/06752/23
Rights:: © Mr Peter L. May. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1308055
Date first listed:: 08-Nov-1949
Date of most recent amendment:: 13-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: GOSS HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: GOSS HOUSE, 26, HIGH STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GOSS HOUSE, 26, HIGH STREET

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Street
National Grid Reference:: ST 48557 36946

Details

STREET CP HIGH STREET (North side) ST43NE

10/72 No.26 (Goss House) (Previously listed as No 20 (Goss House)) 8.11.49

GV II

House. 1810 by William Goss. Smooth rendered and colourwashed, wide bracketed eaves, shallow pantile roof, coped verges, brick stacks. Symmetrical frontage. Two storeys, 3 bays; tripartite sash windows of 4:8:4 lights, side-lights fixed, in narrow and shallow canted bays ascending to the eaves; centre-window to first floor in conforming style, directly over door opening resting on a splayed and panelled entablature, with attached shallow hood, the whole giving the effect of an oriel window. Recessed 6-panelled door, decorative panelled reveals and surround. (McGarvie M, Guide to Historic Street, unpublished).

Listing NGR: ST4855736946

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Legacy System number:: 267781
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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McGarvie, M, Guide to Historic Street

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.