Description

BRIDGWATER

ST2936NE FRIARN LAWN
736-1/11/75 (North side)
16/12/74 Nos.1, 2 AND 3
and attached verandah

GV II

Terrace of 3 houses. c1820. Flemish bond brick painted to
front of Nos 1 & 2, continuous pantile roof hipped to the
left, brick stacks to party walls and one to right gable end
has a brick cornice.
Each house is one room deep with various rear service rooms
and extensions. Picturesque Regency style.
3 storeys with basements. Nos 1 & 3 were 2-window range; No.2
to centre of 3 window-range; No.3 was extended to right in
1827. Flat arches to 2-light casement windows on upper floors,
all with margin panes, those to first floor are full-height;
below the cills an elaborate cast-iron trellised verandah
spans front with semicircular arches in front of the doors and
virtually elliptical ones in front of windows, the lower part
forms a barrier to the basement areas.
The door to No.1 on the left is to left, others are to centre;
architraves are Regency style with reeded jambs and lintels
and roundels set in squares at the corners. Windows to ground
floor are mostly sashes with various thin glazing bars, No.2
has C20 French windows to left. No.3 projects forward to
right, it has a void to ground-floor where former right-of-way
existed. The first floor bay has a hipped roof and cast-iron
balcony; the floor is supported by a repositioned cast-iron
beam.
INTERIOR: The ground floor of No.1 has a reeded cornice, small
elliptical recesses flanking late C19 black marble fireplace,
and reeded jambs to the window architrave. No.3 has a brick
vaulted cellar, the front wall of which is red limestone
rubble, possibly indicating site of former older building; a
well approx 30m deep and 1.5m across, cut into the subsoil,
has approx 1m of diminishing diameter circles of bricks to
top.
The ground floor has a single storey lean-to at rear; room to
left has 2 elliptical arches to left and a large one to centre
of right wall; a dogleg staircase; room to first floor right,
built in 1827, has a high ceiling, restored reeded cornice,
plaster ceiling rose, a repositioned C18 fireplace and 6-panel
door almost 2m high with added mouldings. The French windows
are set in an elliptical bay.

Listing NGR: ST2964736824

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26569460

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments