Description

MINEHEAD

SS9646 THE AVENUE
900-1/3/78 (South side)
04/07/52 No.2

II*

Includes: No.1 SUMMERLAND ROAD.
Court room, later house and now shop. C15 with later
alterations. Rubblestone with plain tile roof. 2-unit plan.
Originally 3 storeys throughout; one-window range. The gabled
front facing The Avenue has a small oak-framed C15 two-light
window to the apex and a similar larger window to the first
floor with cusped heads to the lights. Buttresses, that to the
right is massive, flank a C20 shop door. To the right return,
in Summerland Road, is a C15 oak door frame with a chamfered
4-centred arch and foliate spandrels to a planked and studded
door with strap hinges.
INTERIOR: features, mostly concealed, are a hollow-chamfered
beam to the ground floor, and a tie beam with mounting for
removed joists. The roof structure was replaced late C19.
HISTORY: the building was at one time a court room and for
many years the Luttrell Estate Offices.
(Binding H: Minehead: A New History: Minehead: 1977-: P.37).

Listing NGR: SS9693846215

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17555982

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas