Coleridge's Cottage
37, LIME STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1344921
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Coleridge's Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- 37, LIME STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1344921
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Coleridge's Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- 37, LIME STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- COLERIDGE'S COTTAGE, 35, LIME 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:
- 37, LIME STREET
- Statutory Address:
- COLERIDGE'S COTTAGE, 35, LIME STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Nether Stowey
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 19107 39857
Details
ST13NE NETHER STOWEY CP LIME STREET (South side)
11/57 No 35 (Coleridge's Cottage) and No 37 (formerly listed as Coleridge's Cottage [National Trust]) 29.3.63
- II*
Two houses. No 35 with a C17 core, No 37 a contemporary byre, now house with much mid C19 alteration. Colourwashed render, plain pilaster to left side, wide eaves to left half, pantile roof; double Roman tile roof to right half with ridge at right angles to frontage; brick stacks. Two storeys, 2:1 bays, that to right set forward slightly, 12-pane sash windows, 16-pane sash window to ground floor of right bay; those to left 2 bays flush mounted. Two door openings, that to No 35 of 6 panels, hood on brackets; 9-panelled door to No 37 with transomlight. Decorative stone plaque with incised lettering to No 35 :- "HERE SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE MADE HIS HOME 1797-1800". Interior with exposed ceiling beams; some restored C18 features including cupboards and 2 fireplaces. Coleridge occupied the property 1797-1800 when it was in the ownership of Thomas Poole who occupied Tom Poole's House (qv). He composed many of his major works here including The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Cristabel (Part 1) and The Three Graves. References to the cottage are found in several poems, including To The Rev G Coleridge, lines 52-61; This Lime Tree Bower My Prison; Frost at Midnight; Fears in Solitude, lines 221-226.
Listing NGR: ST1910739857
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 268906
- 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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