Crispin Hall
CRISPIN HALL, 83, HIGH STREET, BA16 0EZ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345072
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Crispin Hall
- Statutory Address:
- CRISPIN HALL, 83, HIGH STREET, BA16 0EZ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345072
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Crispin Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- CRISPIN HALL, 83, HIGH STREET, BA16 0EZ
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:
- CRISPIN HALL, 83, HIGH STREET, BA16 0EZ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Street
- National Grid Reference:
- ST4833136632
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 06/03/2017
ST 43 NE,
10/80
STREET CP,
HIGH STREET (South side),
No. 83 (Crispin Hall)
(Formerly listed as: No. 81 (Crispin Hall))
II
Public hall, library and reading room; now craft centre and hall. Stone plaque to frontage with raised lettering:-
"Club and Library 1883', by G. J. Skipper for William S. Clark. Irregularly coursed and squared rubble, freestone
dressings, double Roman tile roofs, large dormer gable, arcaded wooden bellcote, pyramidal lead roof with bellcast and
elaborate weathervane; two zinc ventilating lanterns; large brick stacks with oversailing courses. Roughly rectangular on
plan, Domestic Revival. Two storeys and attic, 3:1:2 bays, those to right projecting slightly under a front facing
gable; attic with 3-light dormer with a transom; predominantly 2, 3, 5 and 6-light stone-mullioned windows, the
majority with transoms and stopped labels. Door opening to centre in a single-storey gabled porch, 4-centred arch door
opening, stopped label, paired plank doors; sign at right-angles over door on an iron frame:- *Crispin Hall". Return to
Leigh Road of one and two storeys with attics, 1:5:1:1 bays, those to left and right under front-facing gables, third bay
set in a projecting stair-turret with an octopartite tile roof with scrolled wrought-iron cresting; 2, 3, and 4-light
stone-mullioned windows, some stopped labels; set of 5 bays with tall 3-light windows giving onto the hall, cambered
heads, double transoms; a buttress between each of 2 stages with offsets. Two door opening is to right of projecting
turret in a hipped roof porch, door opening to right side in a dressed stone surround with a 4-centred head, label,
paired plank doors with elaborate hinges; to left with projecting gabled porch, 4-centred arch outer door opening,
paired inner plank doors. Stone plaque on turret with figures in relief. Occupies a prominent position of importance on
the High Street.
(Mc Garvie M., Guide to Historic Street, unpublished).
Listing NGR: ST4833136632
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 267789
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
McGarvie, M, Guide to Historic Street, ()
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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