SERVICE BOX AT JUNCTION WITH STAPLEGROVE ROAD

SERVICE BOX AT JUNCTION WITH STAPLEGROVE ROAD, THE AVENUE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1372428
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:: SERVICE BOX AT JUNCTION WITH STAPLEGROVE ROAD
Statutory Address:: SERVICE BOX AT JUNCTION WITH STAPLEGROVE ROAD, THE AVENUE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1372428
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:: SERVICE BOX AT JUNCTION WITH STAPLEGROVE ROAD
Statutory Address 1:: SERVICE BOX AT JUNCTION WITH STAPLEGROVE ROAD, THE AVENUE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: SERVICE BOX AT JUNCTION WITH STAPLEGROVE ROAD, THE AVENUE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Taunton
National Grid Reference:: ST 22351 25082

Details

The following building shall be added to the list:

TAUNTON THE AVENUE ST 2225 + 2325 (east side) 6/400 Service box at junction with Staplegrove Road GV II Electricity service box. Late C19-early C20. Made by Hardy and Padmore Ltd, Worcester for Taunton Corporation Electricity Department. Cast iron. Rectangular on plan, the long sides having panel-decorated hinged doors, the short sides having circular plates with makers name surrounded by interlaced decoration. Roll-moulded edge to pyramidal cap with urn-type finial. A rare survival of an early service box. It was installed between 1894 and 1916. D Gledhill and P Lamb, Electricity in Taunton 1809-1948 (1986).

Listing NGR: ST2235125082

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 361615
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gledhill, D, Lamb, P, Electricity in Taunton 1809-1948, (1986)

Legal

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