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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- Reference:
- IOE01/00060/30
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- 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
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:
- 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
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- 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.
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