Description

CREWKERNE

ST4409 CHURCH STREET
876-1/7/28 (South side)
06/09/74 No.1
including shop adjoining to east
(Formerly Listed as:
CHURCH STREET
(South side)
No.1)
(Formerly Listed as:
CHURCH STREET
(South side)
Shop occupied by Irene Stagg)

GV II

Two shops with dwellings. No.1 is a late C18 remodelling and
refronting of a probably late C17 house.
MATERIALS: coursed and dressed limestone with ashlar
dressings, slate roof and brick right (west) end stack.
PLAN: double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 3-window front with rusticated quoins and
moulded cornice to parapet. Moulded architraves to late C19
2/2-pane sashes. Fine doorcase with pilasters to imposts,
frieze and cornice. Mid/late C19 flanking shop fronts with
dentilled cornices. C17 stone-mullioned window surviving from
earlier house to rear. INTERIOR not inspected.
Shop with dwelling to left: c1840.
MATERIALS: Ham Hill stone ashlar; pantile roof, hipped to the
east, facing Market Street, and stepped stone coping with a
brick stack to the west gable end. PLAN: double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. All windows
on the first-floor are late C19 horned 2/2-pane sashes; one to
the east and 2 facing north. Both facades have setback incised
pilasters with triglyph capitals resting on a continuous
projecting porch, and supporting a moulded cornice and
parapet. The centre of the east facade is slightly stepped
back at first-floor level. The mid C19 shopfront has panelled
pilasters to the sides and flanking the C20 door which is on a
canted bay to the ground-floor; 2 plate-glass panes to each
side between colonnettes with ornamented tops. Beneath the
window to the far right is a similar but narrower window.
INTERIOR: said by the occupier to be completely altered.

Listing NGR: ST4408809740

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26498550

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