Nos 10 And 11 And Attached Railings

ST3614 1939-1/7/2

ILMINSTER, BAY HILL (North side), Nos.10 AND 11 and attached railings

29/07/76

II

Two houses. c1840. Ham Hill stone ashlar, slate roof tarred to the left (No.10); brick stacks to centre of ridge. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys; 3-bay front with 4-window first-floor range. Paired C20 doors with reeded lintel and Gothic-style interlaced glazing bars to overlight, below paired and keyed semicircular-arched sashes with margin panes. 8/8-pane sashes to the left (No.10) and c1990 plastic windows to the right (No.11); all openings have shallow segmental arches and keystones. INTERIORS not inspected, but No.11 to the right (east) is said to be completely altered. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Elaborate attached cast-iron railings, probably from the Phoenix foundry in Chard, similar to the Baptist Chapel (qv) there and Summerlands in Brewery Lane, Ilminster, which have alternate spearhead and palmette railings with trellised main supports, round-arched tops with anthemion insets, scroll-patterns to the centres and rectangular bases enclosing stylized flowers.

Listing NGR: ST3663114554