Monks Corner
MONKS CORNER, 2, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345916
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Monks Corner
- Statutory Address:
- MONKS CORNER, 2, WEST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345916
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Monks Corner
- Statutory Address 1:
- MONKS CORNER, 2, 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:
- MONKS CORNER, 2, 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 43172 16860
Details
SOUTH PETHERTON CP WEST STREET (West side) St4316 7/187 No 2 (Monks Corner) 19.4.61
GV II
Detached house on corner site. C18, possibly with earlier fragments. Mostly Ham stone roughly cut and squared, but with extension in Flemish bond red brickwork; plain clay tiled roofs, some over stone slate base courses, between stepped coped gables; brick chimney stacks. 'T'-plan; 2 storeys with attics; north-east elevation onto Crown Lane but looking down West Street, of 3 bays of which bay 3 is a gabled projection. Sash windows of 12 panes, to upper bays 1 and 2 set into architraves, and below an angled bay window with flat roof spanning both these bays; to right of bay 2 a Regency pattern 6-panel door hung on heavy frame, protected by open stone porch set into the corner, with Tuscan columns and pilasters carrying plain entablature; bay 3 projection has a blocked gable-end window to first floor and 2-light casement to attic, both with timber lintels; in south-east face of return are small- pane casement windows, the lower C20 and the upper a 3-light earlier pattern set under a stone label. South-east gable has a hollow-chamfered single-light window in chamfered recess without label at attic level. A variety of casement windows to north crosswing and west elevation of main block. Further C20 extensions to west gable of crosswing. Interior not seen.
Listing NGR: ST4316916859
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 264272
- 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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