Highway Cottage
HIGHWAY COTTAGE, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308338
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Highway Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHWAY COTTAGE, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308338
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Highway Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHWAY COTTAGE, CHURCH 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:
- HIGHWAY COTTAGE, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Merriott
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 44473 12831
Details
ST4412 MERRIOTT CP CHURCH STREET (South side)
9/118 Highway Cottage
GV II
Semi-detached cottage. Circa 1600 origins, modified. Local stone rubble, colourwashed; thatched roof with stepped coped south gable, half-hipped to north: central brick chimney stack. Two storeys, 2 bays irregular fenestration. Small casement windows, 3-light ground floor, with keystoned lintol bay 1 and timber lintol bay 2. 2-light first floor cutting into thatch. Between bays a C19 door in plain opening protected by rustic timber and hipped thatched porch. Some exposed timbers alongside upper windows. Further small casement window in west gable. Interior not seen, but reported is a 3-room cross-passage plan: main fireplace in the hall; timber-framed chimney; collar trusses, some frame filling. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, 1977). Attached to north west corner, and set at right angles, a C19 cottage, apparently now incorporated to form one house.
Listing NGR: ST4447312831
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262368
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, (1977)
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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