The Court House
THE COURT HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345971
- 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:
- 1345971
- 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:
- Rimpton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 61012 21890
Details
ST62SW RIMPTON CP CHURCH LANE (North side)
5/112 The Court House
19.4.61
GV II
Manor House. Mostly C17 but with earlier fragments. Local stone cut and squared, random coursed, with Ham stone dressings; Bridgwater patent, triple angle, clay tiles between coped gables; 2-stone chimney stacks and one of brick. Originally an "L"-plan; main South elevation has 2-stories of 3-bays, with left hand projecting wing. Central coped gabled porch, with finial, with solid sides and cambered arch doorway; windows ovolo-mould mullioned with rectangular leaded lights and label moulds, 4-light to ground floor and 3-light above; 2-wrought iron casement stays survive. The gable of the projection has a 4-light hollow chamfered window to ground floor, above a matching 3-light with label set under a triangular relieving arch. In the East wall of the projection a plain doorway with cambered arch. To the rear an early stone chimney stack and several mullioned windows, as well as a C20 rear wing and 2-lean-to extensions. The interior is said to contain jointed cruck roof trusses, some C17 fireplaces, chamfered beams and a moulded stud and panel cross-passage screen. Owned by Bishopric of Winchester from the mid C11 into the C19, and used as a resting place for the Bishop's officers attending Assize Courts at Ilchester and in Taunton. (SSAVBRG Report, unpublished SRO, 1980).
Listing NGR: ST6100921891
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262727
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Somerset and South Avon Vernacular Building Research Group Report in Somerset and South Avon Vernacular Building Research Group Report, (1982)
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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