The Surgery
THE SURGERY, 1, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345915
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- The Surgery
- Statutory Address:
- THE SURGERY, 1, WEST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345915
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Surgery
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SURGERY, 1, WEST 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 SURGERY, 1, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- South Petherton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 43190 16847
Details
SOUTH PETHERTON CP WEST STREET (East side) ST4316 7/184 No 1 (The Surgery) (formerly listed as The Old House 19.4.61
GV II
House on corner site. Earlier C18, some late C18 and C19 modifications. Ham stone roughly cut and squared, ashlar dressings; undulating plain clay tile roof between high stepped coped gables suggesting former thatch; brick end stone slab chimney stacks. Two storeys with attics, 4 bays. Band course above lower windows; casement windows with horizontal bars of an earlier pattern, 4-light to outer bays and 3-light to upper bays, all with rusticated voussoirs and keystoned heads; between lower bays 2 and 3 an 8-panel door in deep panelled recess, the 4 top panels glazed, with timber architrave and open pediment of uncertain dates. East gable has a 12-pane sash window in simple stone architrave to each level including attic, that to first floor having thicker glazing bars: extension to rear with irregular and varied fenestration. probably late C18 in origin; ground floor has a 3-light plain mullioned window in simple architrave, 3 windows to first floor and an attic dormer window. In the south gable a C19 door and a first floor casement window, with a 12-pane sash window in beaded stone surround to attic. Interior not seen.
Listing NGR: ST4319016847
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 264269
- 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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