FURLONG HOUSE (LORNE PLACE) AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADE

FURLONG HOUSE (LORNE PLACE) AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADE, ST THOMAS STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1383155
Date first listed:: 13-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: FURLONG HOUSE (LORNE PLACE) AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADE
Statutory Address:: FURLONG HOUSE (LORNE PLACE) AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADE, ST THOMAS STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1383155
Date first listed:: 13-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: FURLONG HOUSE (LORNE PLACE) AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADE
Statutory Address 1:: FURLONG HOUSE (LORNE PLACE) AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADE, ST THOMAS STREET

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:: FURLONG HOUSE (LORNE PLACE) AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADE, ST THOMAS STREET

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wells
National Grid Reference:: ST 55435 46025

Details

WELLS

ST5446 ST THOMAS STREET 662-1/6/295 (South side (off)) 13/09/72 Furlong House (Lorne Place) and attached balustrade

GV II

Detached house, set well back from street. Late C18/early C19. Rendered with false ashlar lining, colourwashed, hipped Welsh slate roofs, brick chimney stacks. PLAN: L-plan, with compact main block and short return wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and part basement. The main (S) front has 3 windows, all sashes in slightly raised and rounded surrounds, with stone sills; at first floor with pointed heads and interlaced bars, and at ground floor 15-pane sashes flanking a central round-arched doorway with 6-panel door under fanlight with interlace bars, on 4 concrete steps, and with plinth. The right (E) return is plain, with central eaves stack, and the left return is similar, but with one small pointed light beneath the stack. The main rear wall has 12-pane sashes at ground and first floors, and a diagonally set square decorative cast-iron 'oculus' to the staircase. At basement level is a C20 two-light casement and a deep-set doorway. The return wing has 12-pane sashes at ground and first floors, and a small C20 light to the basement; to the right, at ground floor level, is a C20 door under a lean-to porch. INTERIOR: not inspected, but ground-floor windows retain panelled shutters. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: contained in the angle between the wings is a sunk square courtyard with stone paving, approached by 13 square-edged steps in a straight flight, without handrail. On the N side is a decorative cast-iron balustrade set to a weathered stone coping.

Listing NGR: ST5543546025

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Legacy System number:: 483573
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.