Glenburnie
GLENBURNIE, 159, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394008
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Glenburnie
- Statutory Address:
- GLENBURNIE, 159, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394008
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Glenburnie
- Statutory Address 1:
- GLENBURNIE, 159, CHURCH ROAD
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:
- GLENBURNIE, 159, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 76418 62455
Details
CHURCH ROAD Combe Down
(North side)
No.159 Glenburnie (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH ROAD, Combe Down No.159) 05/08/75
GV II
Detached villa, now Junior School. Mid C19 with C20 additions. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, slate roof. PLAN: Tall compact block with low-pitched hipped roof to deep eaves on wide spaced single brackets, to rear large later C20 extension. EXTERIOR: Three storeys, three windows, plain sashes, in architrave surrounds and cornices at first floor, French windows with Venetian shutters to ground floor, and central glazed and panelled door with transom light. Across full width of front at first floor is a particularly good cast iron balcony with decorative railing incorporating grape and vine-leaf enrichment, carried on cast iron supports, in seven-bays. Eaves plain frieze band. Each end, forward, cropped ashlar stack. Right return plain, with sash at each floor to rear, at second floor with twelve panes. Left return similar, but with no window at second floor, and twelve-pane at first floor. INTERIOR: Substantially altered to provide pre-prep school accommodation, and considerably extended. HISTORY: This is the last and the most imposing villa of a series along the north side of Church Road, with panoramic views over the countryside to the south. Listing NGR: ST7641862455
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 509401
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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