Police Station Public Library
POLICE STATION, 4, PRIEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345660
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Police Station Public Library
- Statutory Address:
- POLICE STATION, 4, PRIEST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345660
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Police Station Public Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- POLICE STATION, 4, PRIEST STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- PUBLIC LIBRARY, 6, PRIEST 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:
- POLICE STATION, 4, PRIEST STREET
- Statutory Address:
- PUBLIC LIBRARY, 6, PRIEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Williton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 07600 40946
Details
ST0740 WILLITON CP PRIEST STREET (North side)
10/250 No 4 (Police Station) and No 6 (Public Library)
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GV II
Police Station and county court, now police station and public library. Dated 1858. By John Norton. Red sandstone random rubble, Bath stone dressings, steeply pitched clay tiled roofs, bell cote to pyramid roof of central tower, kneelers at gable ends, external stepped stone stacks on returns, octagonal stone stacks, cavetto moulded caps flanking tower. E-plan, symmetrical facade. One and a half storeys, 2 storey central tower and gabled crosswings, 5 bays, gabled 2-light dormers rising from eaves, 3-light arched casements gable ends, stone tracery in 2-light window centre, groundfloor metal 3-light mullioned and transomed windows, pointed arch entrance centre dated 1858, lean-to tiled porches set in re-entrant angles of wings. Plank doors with decorative hinges. (VCH Somerset, vol 5, forthcoming).
Listing NGR: ST0760040946
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265019
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dunning, R W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1985)
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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