QUICKSILVER MAIL, PUBLIC HOUSE

QUICKSILVER MAIL, PUBLIC HOUSE, HENDFORD HILL

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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:: QUICKSILVER MAIL, PUBLIC HOUSE, HENDFORD HILL

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Date:: 1999-10-14
Reference:: IOE01/00107/02
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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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Legacy System number:: 261374
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.