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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Date:: 2003-01-27
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Official list entry

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

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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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

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Legacy System number:: 271024
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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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.