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© Mr Charles Hallsworth
IoE Number:
32941
Location:
ACACIA HOUSE, HIGH STREET (south side)
CHEW MAGNA, BATH AND NORTH EAST SOMERSET, SOMERSET
Photographer:
Mr Charles Hallsworth
Date Photographed:
11 September 1999
Date listed:
21 September 1960
Date of last amendment:
04 December 1986
Grade
II
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ST 56 SE CHEW MAGNA C.P. HIGH STREET (south side)
3/47 Acacia House and The Firs
21.9.60 (formerly listed as Acacia House)
II
House, now 2 houses. Mid C18 with some later alterations. Coursed sandstone
freestone with limestone dressings, slate roofs with raised coped verges and stone
gable stacks. 2 storeys and 5 windows, centre 3 bays slightly broken forward,
all windows sashes with replacement glazing bars in raised moulded architraves
with keystones, central panelled and glazed door in moulded architrave with heavy
triple keystone and pediment on consoles; plinth, band course, cornice, parapet
and coping, pediment over central 3 bays with blind lunette in tympanum. To
left, a single storey wing with round-headed sash with Gothic intersecting glazing
bars set in round-headed recess, band course running frum imposts of recess,
coping to parapet; to right and slightly set back, 2-storey wing, probably later
but in conforming style, with band course continued, one sash at ground floor and
2 at first floor, coping; similar single storey wing to right with round-headed
C20 panelled and glazed door in recess. Interior: not inspected.