THE GREAT HOUSE

THE GREAT HOUSE, GREAT HOUSE STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1345748
Date first listed:: 22-May-1969
List Entry Name:: THE GREAT HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE GREAT HOUSE, GREAT HOUSE STREET

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Date:: 1999-08-21
Reference:: IOE01/00060/30
Rights:: © Mr R.M Rayner. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1345748
Date first listed:: 22-May-1969
List Entry Name:: THE GREAT HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE GREAT HOUSE, GREAT HOUSE STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: THE GREAT HOUSE, GREAT HOUSE STREET

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Timberscombe
National Park:: EXMOOR
National Grid Reference:: SS 95682 42178

Details

SS94SE TIMBERSCOMBE CP GREAT HOUSE STREET (North side)

7/96 The Great House

22.5.69

- II

House. Circa 1740. Roughcast grooved as ashlar, quoin pilaster strip left, flat band string courses raised to sills of windows, moulded cornice, shallow pitch slate roof, roughcast stacks gable ends. Plan: double pile. Three storeys, 5 bays, segmental headed sash windows below lintels, 15-pane second floor others 18-pane; central entrance, segmental headed 12-pane light above raised and field panelled door with inset many paned lights. Hipped single bay, 2-storey addition right, 18-pane sash window, left pyramid roofed 3-bay wing service wing adjoining, C20 fenestration, 3 gabled wings at rear. Interior: partially seen, C18 raised and fielded panelling to ground floor room left of panelled hall, segmental archway, central stairway with urn balusters and some twisted balusters, cut string,

Listing NGR: SS9568242178

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 265379
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.