Quicksilver Mail, Public House
QUICKSILVER MAIL, PUBLIC HOUSE, HENDFORD HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1346129
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Quicksilver Mail, Public House
- Statutory Address:
- QUICKSILVER MAIL, PUBLIC HOUSE, HENDFORD HILL
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- Date:
- 1999-10-14
- Reference:
- IOE01/00107/02
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1346129
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Quicksilver Mail, Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- QUICKSILVER MAIL, PUBLIC HOUSE, HENDFORD 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:
- QUICKSILVER MAIL, PUBLIC HOUSE, HENDFORD HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Yeovil
- National Grid Reference:
- ST5484414936
Details
ST51SW
3/29
YEOVIL CP
HENDFORD HILL (West side)
Quicksilver Mail, Public House
-
II
Inn, of C18 with later modifications. Ashlar Ham stonework, with Welsh slate
roof between coped gables (two bottom courses of stone slates remain); brick
chimney stacks at each end, that on South-west side widens at base, probably for
oven. 2-storeys 3-bay facade, with (later) central doorway and 5 steps, crowned
by shallow stone hood on modern brackets; on ground floor the sash windows to
either side of the door had 20-panes: in each case the lower glazing bars
removed: the windows set in architraves: the 3-first floor windows each have a
central 12- pane window with 4-pane sidelight set in raised mullioned surrounds.
Interior not inspected. The 'Quicksilver' was one of the fastest London/Exeter
mail coaches in the 1830's, which is said to have changed horses here.
Originally 3-storey - lowest buried by raising of road level).
Listing NGR: ST5484414936
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261374
- 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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