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Latitude: 50.9272 / 50°55'37"N
Longitude: -2.9062 / 2°54'22"W
OS Eastings: 336405
OS Northings: 114584
OS Grid: ST364145
Mapcode National: GBR M9.PX4J
Mapcode Global: FRA 46SN.KKQ
Plus Code: 9C2VW3GV+VG
Entry Name: 55 and 57, East Street
Listing Date: 29 July 1976
Last Amended: 24 January 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1207965
English Heritage Legacy ID: 383416
ID on this website: 101207965
Location: Townsend, Somerset, TA19
County: Somerset
District: South Somerset
Civil Parish: Ilminster
Built-Up Area: Ilminster
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset
Church of England Parish: Ilminster
Church of England Diocese: Bath and Wells
Tagged with: Building
ILMINSTER
ST3614 EAST STREET
1939-1/7/53 (North side)
29/07/76 Nos.55 AND 57
(Formerly Listed as:
EAST STREET
(North side)
Nos.55 AND 57
Opies Agate Shop)
GV II
House and shop. Early C18 with c1760 brick addition. Limestone
rubble with brick insert to centre, pantile roof with stepped
stone coping and tall brick stacks to centre and rear of rear
wing; plain tiles and coping to central projecting gable.
Basically L-shape plan with rear wing to inside right, raised
up a steep slope.
Right-hand end, to east, lower than the road, is 2 storeys;
2-window range with C19 three-light casements, that to
first-floor right under an oak lintel, the wall to the left of
it is a brick inset of 2 storeys, a vertical joint to its
right and a random joint with rubblestone to its left; the
ground-floor casement of this range is under a flat gauged
brick arch. To the left of centre is a taller 2-storey,
2-window range, projecting bay with an ogee Dutch gable
supporting two C19 chimney pots and containing a blind
ogee-arched window in the gable end and a blind window below
it to the right: it has 2/2-pane sashes with forward frames to
left of front and first-floor right return, all under flat
gauged arches. In the angle to the right of the projection is
a 6-panel door contained in a wooden porch, probably c1800,
now enclosed in corrugated plastic sheeting. Shop to the left
is single-storey with a simple C19 shop front.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Listing NGR: ST3640514584
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