Wall and Gatepiers Fronting Road, Lydeard House
WALL AND GATEPIERS FRONTING ROAD, LYDEARD HOUSE, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344852
- Date first listed:
- 04-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Wall and Gatepiers Fronting Road, Lydeard House
- Statutory Address:
- WALL AND GATEPIERS FRONTING ROAD, LYDEARD HOUSE, WEST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344852
- Date first listed:
- 04-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Wall and Gatepiers Fronting Road, Lydeard House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALL AND GATEPIERS FRONTING ROAD, LYDEARD HOUSE, WEST 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:
- WALL AND GATEPIERS FRONTING ROAD, LYDEARD HOUSE, WEST 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 16669 29858
Details
ST1629 BISHOP'S LYDEARD CP WEST STREET (North side)
10/49 Wall and gatepiers fronting road, Lydeard House
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GV II
Gatepiers and boundary wall of Lydeard House (qv) fronting road. Late C18 and early C19. Red sandstone random rubble and ashlar with limestone and Ham stone dressings. Western half: left, 5 bays red sandstone random rubble with flat topped square piers and canted wall, curved corner flanking entrance, similar to right with 11 bays coursed, dressed red sandstone, ashlar piers, limestone balustrade with flat coping, canted wall; the walls are returned past the gatepiers for some 5 metres terminating in square piers with a pineapple finial on the left, missing right. Gatepiers: square banded red sandstone and vermiculated limestone, flat topped with ovolo moulded cornice, cavetto moulded square plinth, about 4 metres high, flanked by arched openings in walls abutting boundary walls and gatepiers, keystones with recessed vermiculated panels, rusticated jambs of alternating red sandstone and white limestone. Wooden gates not included. To East wall continues as red sandstone random rubble, swept up at intervals to the height of the 2-storey cottage (not included) abutting wall, flat sandstone coping. In corner to right C20 plank door with wooden lintel to left arched opening almost opposite the gateway to the churchyard (qv). Keystone arch with steeply chamfered archivolt, rusticated limestone jambs, red sandstone plinth, C19 plank door partially studded.
Listing NGR: ST1666929858
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 270260
- 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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