THE COTTAGES

THE COTTAGES, 1,2 & 3, LOWER STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391077
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-2004
List Entry Name:: THE COTTAGES
Statutory Address:: THE COTTAGES, 1,2 & 3, LOWER STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391077
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-2004
List Entry Name:: THE COTTAGES
Statutory Address 1:: THE COTTAGES, 1,2 & 3, LOWER STREET

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:: THE COTTAGES, 1,2 & 3, LOWER STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Chewton Mendip
National Grid Reference:: ST 59729 53248

Details

CHEWTON MENDIP

1925/0/10013 LOWER STREET 10-SEP-04 Chewton Mendip 1,2 & 3 The Cottages

II Row of three cottages, evolved from one house; two of the cottages amalgamated into one house. Circa mid C17; extended circa C18/ early C19. Stone rubble with rendered front. Clay double-Roman tile and pantile roofs with gabled ends. Stone rubble axial and gable-end stacks with brick caps. PLAN: Row of three cottages. No.2 at the centre is a C17 2-room plan house, the hall/ kitchen on the right heated from a large fireplace in a gable-end stack with a newel stairs to the side and with a service room/ parlour to the left. Later in the C18 a 1-room plan kitchen wing was built at the back, a 1-room plan separate cottage [No.1] was added to the right [SE] end and an outbuilding was built at the left [NW] end; subsequently the outbuilding was converted into another cottage [No.3] and outshuts have been added to the rear. No.3 is now part of No.2. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 6-window south west front; various late C19 and C20 2-and 3-light casements and three doorways with plank doors. Rear [north east], gable-ended wing to left of centre and outshuts with lean-to roofs. INTERIOR: No.2, its hall has plastered framed ceiling, large fireplace with chamfered stone jambs with diagonal stops and chamfered timber bressumer, newel stairs to side of fireplace and section of plank-and-muntin screen between hall and parlour; parlour has arched china cupboard with dentilled cornice and fireplace with simple wooden chimneypiece; roof has trusses with lapped and pegged collars, tenoned purlins, diagonal ridgepiece and common-rafter couples. Both Nos. 1 and 2 have C18/ early C19 joinery including 2- and 4-panel and plank doors and panelling in window seats. A largely intact row of cottages with a small C17 house at the centre with a well preserved interior.

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Legacy System number:: 492113
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.