The Gateway
THE GATEWAY, THE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1346073
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1959
- List Entry Name:
- The Gateway
- Statutory Address:
- THE GATEWAY, THE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1346073
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1959
- List Entry Name:
- The Gateway
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GATEWAY, THE HILL
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 GATEWAY, THE HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Langport
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 42347 26716
Details
LANGPORT CP THE HILL (South side) ST4226 11/116 The Gateway 17.4.59 GV II
Detached house. Deeds start 1672, house remodelled early C19. Rendered and colourwashed; hipped Welsh slate roof; red brick chimney stacks. In a villa style. Two storeys, 3-bay east elevation. Sash windows in plain openings, 12-pane below and 9-pane above; central pair glazed doors with plain fanlight over, protected by wide open flat-roofed porch with dentil- moulded fascia, carried on 4 Doric-style cast-iron columns replacing stone columns now in the grounds. South elevation of 5 bays to match, with central bay feature of segmental step, curved verandah with bitumenised roof, replacing lead, on timber columns screening French windows set on curve; above, balcony with timber lattice balustrade and timber columns carrying moulded flat roof, said by owner to be an addition of 1805. Interior has doorways, staircases, and coved and moulded ceilings all of early C19 date. House originally called Meadows, it was the home of the Broadmead family, who demolished many tenements east of the Hanging Gateway (q.v) in early C19 to extend the grounds of this house, possibly to coincide with its remodelling or rebuilding (VCH vol III, 1974).
Listing NGR: ST4241926672
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263181
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1974)
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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