BOUNDARY WALLS TO NUMBER 3 AND TO LANTERN HOUSE (LANTERN HOUSE NOT INCLUDED)

BOUNDARY WALLS TO NUMBER 3 AND TO LANTERN HOUSE (LANTERN HOUSE NOT INCLUDED), THE LIBERTY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1383165
Date first listed:: 31-May-2000
List Entry Name:: BOUNDARY WALLS TO NUMBER 3 AND TO LANTERN HOUSE (LANTERN HOUSE NOT INCLUDED)
Statutory Address:: BOUNDARY WALLS TO NUMBER 3 AND TO LANTERN HOUSE (LANTERN HOUSE NOT INCLUDED), THE LIBERTY

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Date:: 2007-08-04
Reference:: IOE01/16715/08
Rights:: © Mr John H. Sparkes. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1383165
Date first listed:: 31-May-2000
List Entry Name:: BOUNDARY WALLS TO NUMBER 3 AND TO LANTERN HOUSE (LANTERN HOUSE NOT INCLUDED)
Statutory Address 1:: BOUNDARY WALLS TO NUMBER 3 AND TO LANTERN HOUSE (LANTERN HOUSE NOT INCLUDED), THE LIBERTY

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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Location

Statutory Address:: BOUNDARY WALLS TO NUMBER 3 AND TO LANTERN HOUSE (LANTERN HOUSE NOT INCLUDED), THE LIBERTY

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 55008 46025

Details

WELLS

ST5446 THE LIBERTY 662-1/6/300 (North side) Boundary walls to No.3 and to Lantern House (Lantern House not included)

GV II

Boundary walls to front of Lantern House (not included) and Polydor House (qv). C18 and C19. Rubble, with ashlar dressings. Opposite Lantern House the wall is approx 3m high, without coping, with central plank door to segmental head in flush stone haunched voussoirs. At the right-hand end are 2 tall square C20 stone piers with pyramidal cappings on plain bands, and containing plank gates. The wall continues to the right, over a plank door to concrete lintel, then pair of lofty piers, part ashlar to the left, and including early stonework to the right, rebuilt in the upper part; these contain a pair of plank gates. The wall continues with an early saddle-back coping with roll-top, mainly at approx 1.8m height, but dropping to approx 1.5m in the central section, swept at the levels changes. Opposite the main entrance door to Polydor House is a pair of square ashlar piers with flat pyramidal cappings. A section of wall returns to the front of the house to the left of the doorway, and also returns at the left-hand end to the E boundary of the site. This boundary, with other walling in the street, is important as part of the townscape in The Liberty, but also incorporates fabric of historic interest.

Listing NGR: ST5500846025

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Legacy System number:: 483583
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.