The Nest And Front Boundary Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1987. House.
The Nest And Front Boundary Wall
- WRENN ID
- plain-chalk-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1987
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 100 etc, Higher Street. 16/268 11/268
No. 100 etc, Higher Street. 16/268 11/268
------------------------------------ ST4517 MARTOCK CP HIGHER STREET (South side) BOWER HINTON
16/268 No. 100 (The Nest), and front boundary wall (formerly listed as the The Nest) 19.4.61
GV II
House in row. Late C18, modified and extended in C19. Ham stone ashlar facade, cut and squared elsewhere; probably a Welsh slate roof of shallow pitch hidden behind parapet; brick chimney stacks. Two storeys, 4 bays, of which bay 1 is of a different build. Plinth, eaves, cornice, plain shallow parapet with thin coping: composite sash windows of 4+8+4 panes, the bottom glazing bars removed from the upper windows and lower bay 1; the lower bays 2 + 4 windows are 12-pane sashes in keystoned architraves: to lower bay 3 a 6-panel door in architrave, up 6 steps, protected by open timber porch with metal bell-hip roof. Interior not seen. About 3m north of the house an ashlar wall on rubble base, with plinth and thin coping, upsweeps at ends, averaging 1.5m high, no central gate; adding to the setting of the house and to the streetscene.
Listing NGR: ST4565017848
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