Description

ILMINSTER

ST3414 SILVER STREET
1939-1/6/110 (South side)
29/07/76 No.43

GV II

House, now house and shop. C17, with early and late C19
alterations and extensions. Ham Hill stone ashlar facade,
probably early C19, rubble to the left return; double-Roman
pantile roof, hipped to the left (east), gabled to the right
with a brick stack to left-of-centre and a small gable to the
left return. 4-unit plan.
Horizontal 3- and 4-light casement windows to the first floor;
C20 door to the far right, with 4-light casement to
inside-right. There is a C20 shop with a shop window inserted
to the front left and in the left return. The rear is early
C19 rough ashlar, a 2-storey gable to the left with 8/8-pane
sash in a forward frame and wooden lintel over French windows
with overlight to the ground floor. Stepped well-forward is a
flat-roofed room, probably early C19, with lead roof and Ham
Hill stone coping to the parapet wall; it has a door to the
left return and a C20 two-light window facing the garden, to
the south.
INTERIOR: much altered, but has an open fireplace to the right
of the stack with an oak beam, otherwise mostly early C19 with
elliptical arches and a reeded cornice to the main room. Roof
not seen.

Listing NGR: ST3593214569

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503706

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Recommended Books

• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets