Longton House Number 33 and Attached Front Area Wall and Gate Piers

LONGTON HOUSE, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1384625
Date first listed:
19-Jun-1975
List Entry Name:
Longton House Number 33 and Attached Front Area Wall and Gate Piers
Statutory Address:
LONGTON HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1384625
Date first listed:
19-Jun-1975
Date of most recent amendment:
17-Jul-2000
List Entry Name:
Longton House Number 33 and Attached Front Area Wall and Gate Piers
Statutory Address 1:
LONGTON HOUSE, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 2:
NUMBER 33 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA WALL AND GATE PIERS, 33, HIGH STREET

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
LONGTON HOUSE, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
NUMBER 33 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA WALL AND GATE PIERS, 33, HIGH STREET

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 65431 68707

Details

KEYNSHAM

ST6568 HIGH STREET
739-1/4/50 (East side)
19/06/75 No.33
and attached front area wall and
gate piers
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
(East side)
No.33
Midland Bank)

GV II

Formerly known as: Longton House HIGH STREET.
Attached house, school, bank, now offices with low wall and
piers adjoining. Early C19, late C19 school. Colourwashed
render, ashlar copings, pantile roof and rendered end stacks;
rubble wall with ashlar corners and gate piers.
PLAN: double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey; 3-window range. West front with plinth,
cornice and blind parapet. Windows have sills and are mid C19
plate-glass sashes with margin glazing and horns. Central
round-arched doorway with open pediment on brackets, 6-panel
door and radial fanlight; further doorway to left-hand end
with identical doorcase and C20 door and fanlight.
INTERIOR: nothing survives inside either of the original room
layout or any architectural features of note.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached low wall encloses front area,
with short capped corners and gate piers.
HISTORICAL NOTE: originally called Longton House, the building
served as a ladies' school in the late C19 and then a mixed
school until 1910.
(Lowe B and Whitehead M: The Changing Face of Keynsham in Old
Photographs: Stroud: 1994-: 41).


Listing NGR: ST6543168707

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
485060
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Lowe, B, Whitehead, M, The Changing Face of Keynsham in Old Photographs, (1994), 41

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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