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KEYNSHAM

ST6568 HIGH STREET
739-1/4/50 (East side)
19/06/75 No.33
and attached front area wall and
gate piers
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
(East side)
No.33
Midland Bank)

GV II

Formerly known as: Longton House HIGH STREET.
Attached house, school, bank, now offices with low wall and
piers adjoining. Early C19, late C19 school. Colourwashed
render, ashlar copings, pantile roof and rendered end stacks;
rubble wall with ashlar corners and gate piers.
PLAN: double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey; 3-window range. West front with plinth,
cornice and blind parapet. Windows have sills and are mid C19
plate-glass sashes with margin glazing and horns. Central
round-arched doorway with open pediment on brackets, 6-panel
door and radial fanlight; further doorway to left-hand end
with identical doorcase and C20 door and fanlight.
INTERIOR: nothing survives inside either of the original room
layout or any architectural features of note.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached low wall encloses front area,
with short capped corners and gate piers.
HISTORICAL NOTE: originally called Longton House, the building
served as a ladies' school in the late C19 and then a mixed
school until 1910.
(Lowe B and Whitehead M: The Changing Face of Keynsham in Old
Photographs: Stroud: 1994-: 41).

Listing NGR: ST6543168707