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-Sept-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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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383155
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Furlong House (Lorne Place) And Attached Balustrade
- Statutory Address 1:
- FURLONG HOUSE (LORNE PLACE) AND ATTACHED BALUSTRADE, ST THOMAS 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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483573
- 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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