Sundial House and Sundial Cottage
SUNDIAL HOUSE AND SUNDIAL COTTAGE, VALE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366349
- Date first listed:
- 15-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Sundial House and Sundial Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- SUNDIAL HOUSE AND SUNDIAL COTTAGE, VALE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366349
- Date first listed:
- 15-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Sundial House and Sundial Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUNDIAL HOUSE AND SUNDIAL COTTAGE, VALE 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:
- SUNDIAL HOUSE AND SUNDIAL COTTAGE, VALE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Henstridge
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 72467 19907
Details
ST7219 HENSTRIDGE CP VALE STREET (North side)
10/103 Sundial House and Sundial Cottage
II
Pair cottages. Probably both C18. Local stone coursed rubble; asbestos cement slate roof; brick chimney stacks. 2 storeys; 4 bays of which Little Sundial represents bay 1. 3-light casements with timber lintol to bay 1, with part-glazed door under pitched metal roof hood to right; remainder has 16-pane sash windows above and 4-pane sashes below, all under timber lintols; below in bay 3 a part glazed door in timber lattice porch with metal bell-hip roof; between window upper bays 3 and 4 a plaque with painted sundial, probably C18. Interior contains four late C18-early C19 wall paintings reported to have been made by Napoleonic prisoners of war. In the entrance hall the printing depicts a couple sitting at a table being entertained. In the front right-hand room in the fireplace alcove there is a small painting of a military officer on horseback. In the front left-hand room there are two half life-size figures of a man and woman in period costume.
Listing NGR: ST7246719907
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261839
- 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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