23 High Street
23, High Street, Keynsham, BS31 1DP
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384621
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 23 High Street
- Statutory Address:
- 23, High Street, Keynsham, BS31 1DP
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384621
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Jul-2000
- List Entry Name:
- 23 High Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 23, High Street, Keynsham, BS31 1DP
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:
- 23, High Street, Keynsham, BS31 1DP
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Keynsham
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 65420 68733
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 21 September 2021 to update the description, add a reference to selected sources and to reformat the text to current standards
ST6568
739-1/4/46
KEYNSHAM
HIGH STREET (East side)
No.23
(Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET No.23 Aquarius Boutique)
19/06/75
II
Originally an attached house, now a shop, this building has a late C16/early C17 core with late C18 and late C20 alterations.
MATERIALS: the principal elevation is colourwashed render with an ashlar coping to the south gable, a pantile mansard roof and rubble walling to the rear extension.
PLAN: double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: the building is of two-storeys plus an attic and comprises a two-window range. It has rendered pilasters and a blind parapet. The ground floor has two recessed, C20, multi-paned glazed doors to the left with a flat hood above and canted late C20 shopfront to the right. The first floor has twelve-pane sashes with horns and there are two C20, plain, rectangular dormers to the attic.
INTERIOR: the ground floor has a framed ceiling of ovolo-moulded, oak beams forming six separate compartments. This property is particularly notable for the rare survival of a fine late C16/early C17 ceiling.
Listing NGR: ST6542068733
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485056
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Foyle, A, Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (2011), 536
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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