Seymour Arms Public House
SEYMOUR ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390963
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Seymour Arms Public House
- Statutory Address:
- SEYMOUR ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390963
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Seymour Arms Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SEYMOUR ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE
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:
- SEYMOUR ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Witham Friary
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 74472 40949
Details
WITHAM FRIARY
294/0/10007 Seymour Arms public house 16-AUG-04
GV II Public house. 1866; for the Duke of Somerset; Hardwick and Co. builders. Coursed local limestone with red brick dressings. Hipped clay plain tile roof with bands of shaped tiles and crested ridge tiles. Brick axial stacks. PLAN: Double-depth plan with central entrance hall with servery at the back, public bar to left with hatch to cellar behind; room on right of entrance probably the parlour and with private rooms behind and short service wing at back. C20 lavatory outshut on left [NW] side. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical south west front. Large 16-pane sashes in brick surrounds with small keystones in flat brick arches and stone cills; central wide stone pilastered portico with entablature, flush-panel double doors and rectangular overlight. Wrought-iron public house sign on right hand corner in the form of an ornate scrolled bracket with a small bunch of grapes hanging from the end and a banner sign underneath, inscribed Seymour Arms. Right hand return [SE] symmetrical 3-bays with similar sashes and with rear wing set back on right with half-hipped roof and large axial stack. Left hand return [NW side] three symmetrical bays, right hand blind, 16-pane sashes and with C20 single-storey lavatory outshut at centre with lean-to roof. INTERIOR: Central entrance hall with stone flag floor and servery at the back with a glazed screen, a counter and a serving hatch. To the left is the public bar, also with a stone floor, simple benches around the walls with matchboard backs, a stone chimneypiece with a bracketed shelf and a serving hatch to the cellar at the back. To the right of the entrance hall there is what was the publican's parlour with a fireplace with a chimneypiece with console brackets to the mantel shelf. The Seymour Arms is a rare survival of a simple rural public house with an unaltered interior complete with fittings. SOURCE: CAMRA's National Inventory of Pub Interiors of Outstanding Historic Interest; 104.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 492598
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
National Inventory of Pub Interiors of Outstanding Historic Interest, (), 104
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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