ALMSHOUSES AND RAISED FOOTWAY AND RETAINING WALL

ALMSHOUSES AND RAISED FOOTWAY AND RETAINING WALL, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1344847
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1955
List Entry Name:: ALMSHOUSES AND RAISED FOOTWAY AND RETAINING WALL
Statutory Address:: ALMSHOUSES AND RAISED FOOTWAY AND RETAINING WALL, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1344847
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 04-May-1984
List Entry Name:: ALMSHOUSES AND RAISED FOOTWAY AND RETAINING WALL
Statutory Address 1:: ALMSHOUSES AND RAISED FOOTWAY AND RETAINING WALL, 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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Location

Statutory Address:: ALMSHOUSES AND RAISED FOOTWAY AND RETAINING WALL, HIGH STREET

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bishop's Lydeard
National Grid Reference:: ST 16874 29829

Details

ST1629 BISHOPS'S LYDEARD CP HIGH STREET (East side)

10/30 Almshouses and railed footway and retaining wall (Almshouses formerly listed)

25.2.55

¯ II

Almshouses. 1616, restored 1854 and mid C20. Built by Sir Richard Grobham, restored by Mrs Mary Hill. Red sandstone random rubble, slate roof, coped verges, brick stacks corbelled out at gable ends. 2-storeys, 11 bays; 2- and 3-light red sandstone mullioned windows, single light to right of pair of segmental headed doorways between third and fourth bays right, right-hand one slightly larger and opening onto cross passage giving access to rear with iron gate another pair of doors between seventh and eighth bays, fith door in end bay left. C19 plank doors with ornamental hinges. Coved string course divides the storeys. Recessed plaque above right of left-hand pair of doorways with coat or arms and date 1616, another over cross passage entrance with inscription dated 1854. Stone flagged footway with stone setts to channel running along front of almshouses. Low red sandstone retaining wall surmounted by iron railings. Steps to right hand end.

Listing NGR: ST1687429829

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Legacy System number:: 270242
Legacy System:: LBS

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