Description

CREWKERNE

ST4409 ABBEY STREET
876-1/7/1 (West side)
06/09/74 No.1
and attached area railings
(Formerly Listed as:
ABBEY STREET
(South side)
No.1)
(Formerly Listed as:
MARKET SQUARE
Shop to north of King's Arms Public
House)

GV II

Shop. Mid C19 with C17 or C18 rear wing.
MATERIALS: limestone rubble with Ham Hill stone quoins and
voussoirs to the front; slate roof, half-hipped to
front-right, with one brick stack to centre of ridge of rear
wing.
PLAN: obtuse-angled L-shape plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 3-window range to the front; 2 storeys
with attic in central gable of rear right wing, 4-window
range. The Market Street facade, facing west, has late C19,
2/2 sashes to the first floor, and a mid C19 double shopfront,
stepped forward, with 4 panes to each side under a simple
fascia with a moulded cornice.
The long right return, on Abbey Street, has 3 phases. The side
of the C19 shop, which has a 2-light casement under the eaves
of the half-hipped roof: a c1700 range, gabled to the street,
with stone coping and a late C19 2/2 sash under a wooden
lintel to each floor, and a smaller one in the apex. This
range has a central ridge stack.
The stepped-forward rear range, possibly older, is parallel to
Abbey Street with a plain tile roof. All windows are C20,
mostly casements under wooden lintels, those to the far right
are horizontal, with 3-lights.
INTERIOR not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the first 2 ranges of the right return,
in Abbey Street, have a narrow area enclosed by a low Ham Hill
stone plinth with spearhead railings and a gate to the rear.

Listing NGR: ST4410409854

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26498576

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide