Byams
BYAMS, WEST FITZHEAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308126
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Byams
- Statutory Address:
- BYAMS, WEST FITZHEAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308126
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Byams
- Statutory Address 1:
- BYAMS, WEST FITZHEAD
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:
- BYAMS, WEST FITZHEAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Fitzhead
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 11361 28444
Details
ST12NW FITZHEAD CP WEST FITZHEAD
6/120 Byams
25.1.56 GV II
House. Mid C17, altered mid C19, reroofed mid C20. Red sandstone random rubble, rendered on entrance facade (East) slate roof, external stack left, others brick, with large external stepped stack at rear. 2 cell side wall fireplace plan with staircase turret to South and projecting wing North-east making L-shape. Two storeys, l:3:1 bays; C20 3-light metal casements with 4-light left of doorway and 2-light right. Gabled, slate roofed decorative wooden mid C19 porch. Attics lit from gable ends. 2-storeys, independantly roofed staircase turret, 20 pane window with thick glazing bars. Interior: entrance direct into hall with hollow chamfered beam 9 compartment plaster ceiling, plaster decoration in 2 panels to right of entrance only. To left C18 panelled rooom with bolection moulding, right of fireplace entrance to dog leg newel stair, plaster friezes and decorated soffits. Staircase turret probably had a second storey giving access to attics now via internal stair. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, April 1976).
Listing NGR: ST1136128444
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 270331
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in April, (1976)
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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