Bampton House And Attached Gate Piers And Gateway

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SS9646 900-1/3/2

MINEHEAD BAMPTON STREET (West side) No.8 Bampton House and attached gate piers and gateway

(Formerly Listed as: BAMPTON STREET (West side) No.8 Bampton House including yard gateway to right)

04/07/52

GV II

House. Early C18, altered C19 and 1992. Rendered rubble with slate roofs and brick stacks. Double-depth plan. Two storeys with attic; six-window range. 1992 paired 6/6-pane sash windows, two to the left and three to the right of the door. Rusticated quoins. The C19 central pedimented gable has a tall semicircular-arched window with a cast-iron balustrade to the lower part, raised voussoirs and a mask keystone. To the right a wide segmental-arched carriage entrance with a lion's head to the centre and tiled coping is flanked by piers with pineapple finials. To the first floor of the right return is a late C19 oriel window. Rusticated quoins not visible, covered by rendering.

INTERIOR is in the process of being altered to accommodation for people with disabilities, the staircase etc has been removed.

HISTORY: this is thought to be part of the property leased by Samuel Hayman from Colonel Francis Luttrell in 1683. A description exists of a good tenement in Friday Street having a large court and a planked storehouse and two lofts above, a bakehouse and a stable, with other property and land in Bampton Street.

(Binding H: Minehead: A New History: Minehead: 1977-: 175).

Listing NGR: SS9669646078