Rectory Cottages

RECTORY COTTAGES, 1-4

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1345291
Date first listed:
11-Mar-1968
List Entry Name:
Rectory Cottages
Statutory Address:
RECTORY COTTAGES, 1-4
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1345291
Date first listed:
11-Mar-1968
Date of most recent amendment:
27-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:
Rectory Cottages
Statutory Address 1:
RECTORY COTTAGES, 1-4

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
RECTORY COTTAGES, 1-4

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Mells
National Grid Reference:
ST 72748 49184

Details

MELLS CP ST7249 10/37 Nos 1-4, Rectory Cottages, (formerly listed as Rank of 4 cottages opposite the Talbot Inn, New Street (West side)) 11.3.68

GV II

Row of cottages. C17, later alterations. Doulting rubble, tile roofs, 3 brick and one rubble stacks. Irregular facades. 2-storeys, one bay each, number 2 projecting in gabled wing; casements except to first floor of numbers one and 2, which have 2 and 3-light ovolo eoulded stone mullioned windows with leaded lights. Plank doors in plain surrounds except number one, which is moulded. Numbers 3 and 4 have wooden semi-circular hoods on brackets.

Listing NGR: ST7273349187

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Legacy System number:
266737
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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