Gatepiers and Wall Fronting Road, West View
GATEPIERS AND WALL FRONTING ROAD, WEST VIEW, MINEHEAD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344849
- Date first listed:
- 04-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Gatepiers and Wall Fronting Road, West View
- Statutory Address:
- GATEPIERS AND WALL FRONTING ROAD, WEST VIEW, MINEHEAD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344849
- Date first listed:
- 04-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Gatepiers and Wall Fronting Road, West View
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEPIERS AND WALL FRONTING ROAD, WEST VIEW, MINEHEAD ROAD
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:
- GATEPIERS AND WALL FRONTING ROAD, WEST VIEW, MINEHEAD ROAD
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 16748 29191
Details
ST1629 BISHOP'S LYDEARD CP MINEHEAD ROAD (North side)
10/34 Gatepiers and wall fronting road, West View -
GV II
Gatepiers and wall fronting road. Mid C19. Red brick Flemish bond and ashlar limestone with red sandstone random rubble to right. Gatepiers, about 1.5 metres high, central pair opposite front door of West View (qv), pair to left (carriage entrance) and one to right; intersecting ashlar pediment tops, moulded cornice, squared brick shaft with ashlar quoins, chamfered brick and stone plinth. Wall, about one metre high, set back at an angle on 4 course brick plinth with chamfered limestone coping, with one merlon to right and two left of central gatepiers. Wall continued left to similar design in red sandstone random rubble returned as garden wall with one gatepier at angle, red sandstone random rubble, moulded cap and plinth. C20 gates not included. Wall and gatepiers well-executed to a sophisticated design.
Listing NGR: ST1674829191
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 270246
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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