Shell Cottage Shell House Including Forecourt Railings Shell Orchard
SHELL COTTAGE, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345061
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Shell Cottage Shell House Including Forecourt Railings Shell Orchard
- Statutory Address:
- SHELL COTTAGE, THE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345061
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Shell Cottage Shell House Including Forecourt Railings Shell Orchard
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHELL COTTAGE, THE STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- SHELL HOUSE INCLUDING FORECOURT RAILINGS, THE STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- SHELL ORCHARD, THE 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:
- SHELL COTTAGE, THE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- SHELL HOUSE INCLUDING FORECOURT RAILINGS, THE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- SHELL ORCHARD, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chilcompton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 64890 52144
Details
CHILCOMPTON CP THE STREET (West side) ST65SW 4/7 Shell House, Shell Orchard and Shell Cottage; including forecourt railings to Shell House 21.9.60 GV II
Large house, now divided into 3 dwellings. Early/mid C18. Front range, Shell House, of coursed and squared rubble, dressed alternating quoins, eaves band, moulded dentil cornice, ashlar parapet with coping, slate roof with coped verges, end ashlar stacks; 2 storeys and attic, 3 bays, 12-pane sash windows in plain freestone surrounds except to centre of first floor in a moulded architrave with topping triangular pediment with urn. Central door opening in a bolection-moulded architrave, stone shell hood on enriched folded scroll brackets, 6-panelled door, transomlight. Wing at right angles to rear divided into 2 dwellings; to left side Shell Cottage, double Roman tile roof, 2 storeys, 2 bays, 2 gables with copings, one with a ball finial and one with base for a finial, 3 sash windows with glazing bars and one 2-light stone-mullioned window; gabled porch with a coping. Shell Orchard to right side, stone-mullioned windows. Shell House with wrought-iron forecourt railings. Interior said to have painting on wall behind wood panel above fireplace in a kitchen.
Listing NGR: ST6489052144
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 267834
- 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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