Description

BRIDGWATER

ST2937SE CASTLE STREET
736-1/10/29 (South side)
24/03/50 No.15
Legion House and attached wall to
right

GV II*

House, now British Legion premises. Mid C18. Flemish-bond
brick, stone moulded coping to the high parapet (rebuilt),
doorcase, stepped keystones and bracketed cills; double Roman
tile roof, hipped to the rear wing, with brick stacks to gable
ends. Double-depth plan with rear wing to right and C20
single-storey rear extensions.
2 storeys with attic; symmetrical 5-window range. Dentilled
brick cornice beneath parapet. Shallow segmental gauged brick
arches to 6/6-pane sash windows with some crown glass, and
brick platbands between floors and below ground-floor windows.
To left is a segmental brick arch to the basement opening.
Semicircular steps up to 8-panel door, the top 2 panels are
quadrants with small triangular panel between and large bronze
knocker; the doorcase has a moulded cornice on consoles over
an eared and moulded architrave with a keystone.
The right return has flat gauged brick arches to late C19
horned 2/2-pane sash windows to left and a gauged brick
semicircular-arched stair window to right. To first floor of
rear wing is a mid C19 canted bay with a large 6/6-pane sash
window and some crown glass, to right are late C19 paired
fixed windows with semicircular stone arches and bracketed
cills to each.
INTERIOR: the stairs above the first floor have a moulded rail
and stick balusters and two c1770 plaster panels depicting
Roman life. Room to left of first floor has C19 cornice,
skirting boards and a 4-panel door. Room to first floor of
rear wing has an eared architrave to door with 6 raised and
fielded panels, large C19 elliptical-arched recess to rear,
cornice with an ornamental frieze on the ceiling, painted
slate fireplace, foliate plaster ceiling rose and the
architrave to canted bay window has added classical detail.
The front door has plain unmoulded panels to rear and a large
L hinge and lock.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached by a vertical joint to right of
facade, a high Flemish-bond brick wall reaches just above the
platband. To centre a stone lintel to blocked door, to left a
flat gauged brick arch to blocked window, probably openings to
former conservatory to rear. The right wall continues into
Queen Street, the forward part rebuilt.
The terraces of houses in Castle Street form an important
group, unusual for their scale and ambition outside London's
West End.
(VCH: Somerset: London: 1992-: 200).

Listing NGR: ST2991637143

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17553440

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