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4 and 6, Fore Street

A Grade II Listed Building in Bridgwater, Somerset

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.1289 / 51°7'44"N

Longitude: -3.0017 / 3°0'6"W

OS Eastings: 329999

OS Northings: 137104

OS Grid: ST299371

Mapcode National: GBR M5.93CV

Mapcode Global: VH7DH.XWGF

Plus Code: 9C3R4XHX+H8

Entry Name: 4 and 6, Fore Street

Listing Date: 31 January 1994

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1280344

English Heritage Legacy ID: 373882

ID on this website: 101280344

Location: Bridgwater, Somerset, TA6

County: Somerset

District: Sedgemoor

Civil Parish: Bridgwater

Built-Up Area: Bridgwater

Traditional County: Somerset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset

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Description


BRIDGWATER

ST3037 FORE STREET 736-1/6/64 (North side) Nos.4 AND 6

GV II

Two shops. c1880s/90s. Flemish-bond brick with stone bands and dressings; plain tile hipped roof with terra-cotta finials; ornamental brickwork and projecting terracotta dragons to the corners of a left-of-centre ridge stack. Double-depth plan. Queen Anne style. 3 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. 2 forward-facing gables with deep modillioned eaves and resting on a similar cornice each have an oculus in the apex. Stone bands at lintel level and string-courses at cill level. The second floor has two 3-light stone mullioned and transomed windows with 4 small panes to the tops, under wide moulded segmental arches with carved blocking and plain keystones dying into the cornice. These flank a central single-light window with 6 small panes above the transom. The first floor has a similar window to the centre flanked by 2-light canted bays with stone mullions and transoms, carved corbelling below and cornices with blocking courses above. The C20 shopfronts are flanked by pilasters with rusticated blocking topped by urn finials on foliate panelled blocks. INTERIORS not inspected. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: ST2999637104

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