The Court House
THE COURT HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345759
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- The Court House
- Statutory Address:
- THE COURT HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345759
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- The Court House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE COURT HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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 COURT HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chiselborough
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 46787 14840
Details
ST4614 CHISELBOROUGH CP CHURCH LANE (South side) 11/76 The Court House 19.4.61 GV II Detached house. C17 or earlier origins. Ham stone coursed rubble, ashlar dressings; thatched roof between coped gables; brick chimney stack to south end and stone slab stack with baffle to north. T-plan. Two storeys, 4 bays irregular fenestration. Above, 3-light horizontal-bar casement windows; below, hollow chamfered mullioned windows, in wave mould recess bay 1, otherwise in chamfered recesses, all with separate labels, of 2, 3, 2 and 4-lights: between bays 2/3 a chamfered cambered-arched doorway with C20 boarded door, under moulded flat hooded console. brackets; small stairlight to right. Small oval window in south gable and in north gable a C20 window incorporates some earlier fragments. Thatched extension to rear. Interior not seen, but reported is a cross passage plan: north room has large moulded cambered-arched fireplace with incised spandrils, with C18 semi-circular recesses to either side, fielded panelling to east wall; roof trade of mortice and tenon apex jointed trusses with nailed side lapped collars probably C18, with indications of earlier lower roof. First known reference of 1742, when the house known as "Sealy's Cottage where the courts are usually held'. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, September 1984).
Listing NGR: ST4678714840
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263531
- 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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