Heathfield Rectory
South Front, Steeple End and West Wing, Heathfield, Taunton, TA4 1DP
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344562
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Heathfield Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- South Front, Steeple End and West Wing, Heathfield, Taunton, TA4 1DP
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344562
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1985
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 07-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Heathfield Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- South Front, Steeple End and West Wing, Heathfield, Taunton, TA4 1DP
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:
- South Front, Steeple End and West Wing, Heathfield, Taunton, TA4 1DP
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Oake
- National Grid Reference:
- ST1512026849
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 06/11/2019
ST12NE
4/139
OAKE CP
HEATHFIELD
South Front, Steeple End and West Wing
Heathfield Rectory
(Formerly listed as Heathfield Rectory, HEATHFIELD, previously listed under Norton Fitzwarren CP)
17.5.85
II
Rectory, now divided into flats. Circa 1860, on the site of an earlier rectory, by Edward Jeboulte. Uncoursed local stone, quoins, low stepped buttresses to cross gables, overhanging eaves decorative bargeboards, patterned clay tiles, decorative ridge tiles, brick stacks on ridge. L-plan: short entrance front west, long south front and turret in south east corner.
West front: two storeys, 3:1 bays; two- and three-light mullioned and transomed windows half timbered gables to windows left, entrance centre right, steeply pitched gabled porch, patterned clay tiles shaped wooden supports on stone plinth, depressed four-centred arch doorway, coeval door. Long 5:1 bay south front with three half timbered gables and large cross gable right, another entrance second bay left. Right return, (east front), with gable, single storey canted bay and tall spire with bell-cast, slated roof, carried on pierced trefoil headed supports in south east corner.
The incumbents, the Rev. Spurway, father and son, brewed cider here which was marketed commercialy with some success. A lively composition, remarkably unaltered.
Listing NGR: ST1512026849
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 271024
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bush, R, Jeboults Taunton, (1983)
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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