No 17 And Attached Walls And Outbuildings To The Rear

BRIDGWATER

ST2936 NORTH STREET 736-1/8/145 (South West side) 16/12/74 No.17 and attached walls and outbuildings to the rear

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House. Late C17/early C18. Flemish-bond brick front, cob to original rear wall, late C19 English-bond 2-storey rear left wing, C20 rear right wing, steep-pitched pantile roof, tall brick stack forward of left gable end. 2-unit through-passage plan, with large stack heating larger room on left. 2 storeys; 2-window range. Some crown glass. The windows to the first floor are at eaves level, a 3/3-pane sash window to left and a tall C19 two-light casement window with small panes to right; this has no cill but 2 cambered brick arches, one directly above the other, over a 6/6-pane sash window in a forward frame; cambered arches to a similar window to right and C19 right-of-centre 6-panel door, glazed to the top with bolection moulding to panels above beaded lower panels. A wide blank wall to left has traces of a bricked-up former doorway. INTERIOR: The former door was in a lobby to left of open fire. Now a cupboard, the internal door is planked with fine wrought-iron strap hinges; this room, to left, has a chamfered cross-beam. 2 rooms to right of passage, that to front has C20 panelling over brick nogging to a timber-studded partition wall. In the C20 kitchen, formerly outside, is a brick-lined well approx 4 feet in diameter, now covered. C20 stairs against the former rear wall. The roof has threaded purlins and some rough-hewn rafters. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: an English-bond brick wall, approx 2m high, attached to the rear right extends approx 30m. C19 English-bond brick outhouses including a laundry, with pantile roofs are attached to the rear left. History: Deeds of 1727 and 1728 mention the house having existed in 1652 and the transaction of a sale between Joseph Pople of Bridgwater and John Pople of the same address. They also name the house as an inn called The Blew Anchor in 1728. (Deeds: 1727-1728).

Listing NGR: ST2939736990