Fosseway With Front Boundary Railings and Gates
FOSSEWAY WITH FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS AND GATES, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366452
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Fosseway With Front Boundary Railings and Gates
- Statutory Address:
- FOSSEWAY WITH FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS AND GATES, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366452
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Fosseway With Front Boundary Railings and Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- FOSSEWAY WITH FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS AND GATES, HIGH 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:
- FOSSEWAY WITH FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS AND GATES, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hinton St. George
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 42105 12621
Details
ST4212 HINTON ST GEORGE CP HIGH STREET (South side)
8/63 Fosseway (previously listed as Rock House) with front boundary railings and gates 4.2.58 GV II
Detached house. Late C16, modified and extended. Ham stone coursed rubble, ashlar dressings; thatched roof with plain east gable, hipped at angle to west; brick chimney stacks in intermediate positions. 'L'-plan; 2 storeys, 3 bays. Hollow-chamfer mullioned windows in chamfered recesses with labels, 3-light with labels, ground floor bays 1 and 2, but in bay 2 the mullions removed and casements inserted; above, two 3-light horizontal bar casement windows; bay 3 has sash windows, in pairs of 12-pane units to each level. Right of bay 2 a 6-fielded-panel door in recess with architrave and timber hood on wrought-iron brackets. Further 3-light former-mullioned window with label to ground floor level of east gable, with 4-light casement above; west flank has two 3-light mullioned windows without labels. Interior not seen, but reported is a gradually developed unit plan, with back-to-back fireplaces, rare in Somerset; deep chamfered beams with deep step and runouts; chamfered cambered-arched fireplace in former hall; very deep (1.6m) fireplace with bread oven to kitchen, with timber lintol; roof space not examined, but indications of at least one jointed cruck truss. Enclosing garden about 2 metres deep are railings with necked spikes, on low stone kerb, with arch-braced standards with urn-top finials, and returns back to house, pair matching gates opposite door; 2m high stone wall eastwards from house with C20 cast iron gates, all adding to setting of house. (VAG Reports, unpublished SRO, 1973).
Listing NGR: ST4210312619
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262313
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, (1973)
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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