Cross Tree House, With Front Boundary Wall and Railings
CROSS TREE HOUSE, WITH FRONT BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345875
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Cross Tree House, With Front Boundary Wall and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- CROSS TREE HOUSE, WITH FRONT BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345875
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Cross Tree House, With Front Boundary Wall and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- CROSS TREE HOUSE, WITH FRONT BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS, CHURCH 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:
- CROSS TREE HOUSE, WITH FRONT BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lopen
- National Grid Reference:
- ST4259614370
Details
ST4214 LOPEN CP CHURCH STREET (North side)
8/47 Cross Tree House, with front
boundary wall and railings
19.3.80
GV II
Detached house. Probably C18, modified in C19. Ham stone cut and squared, ashlar dressings; thatched roof to steep
pitch between stepped coped gables; ashlar chimney stacks. Two storeys with attic, 3 bays. Above, 3-light
horizontal-bar casement windows with timber lintels; below, C19 bay windows with lead flat roofs to bays 1 and 3, and
to bay 2 a C19 elliptical-arched doorway with beaded ashlar surround having keystone and imposts, with 6-flush-panel
door and radial-glazed fanlight, flanked by two semi-circular arched windows to match, with leaded lights. East gable
has horizontal-bar basements at 3 levels; against west gable a 2-storey 2-bay extension, in course of rebuilding (March
1986). lnterior not seen. Enclosing front garden of main house, about 4 metres deep, a low ashlar wall crowned with
simple wrought-iron railings with spikes; gateway opposite doorway with rectangular ashlar piers having bellhip caps
and pair of C20 timber gates; returns back to corners of house in brick with stone copings about 2 metres high: the
whole contributes to the setting of the house and to the streetscene generally, on an important corner.
Listing NGR: ST4259614370
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 264129
- 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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