Summary

House, early C19.

Description

MATERIALS: rendered, Bridgewater tile roof, brick stack, 16 pane sash windows.

PLAN: L-plan; main range facing onto High Street, slight set back to left, further range set further back to left.

EXTERIOR: a single bay two and a half storey main range with a hipped roof and a six-panel door to left with a C20 hipped porch. There is a small window to the first floor of the return of the set back. The range to the left has a later six-pane window to the first floor and a narrow high-level window to the ground floor. There is also a ground floor door to the left under small casement (part of adjoining property Greenfield House, separately listed at Grade II). There is a dentilled eaves cornice, formerly continuous and with an ogee moulded gutter.
The rear elevation is of three storeys (ground level lower than front) with a single bay range of small pane sashes and a ground floor with a canted bay over sub-ground floor that has a small four-light window and door. To the right there is an uneven two-bay arrangement with a replacement lower left window, over a doorway and 12-pane sash above. To further right (over garden wall to Greenfield House) the flying freehold of number 16 projects further at first floor level with a 12-pane sash, over a ground floor 16-pane casement window and a modern window to the right (part of Greenfield House).

INTERIOR: the entrance leads directly into a living room with a straight flight of stairs across the wall to the rear. A doorway to the left leads onto a landing with stairs down to sub-ground floor, the kitchen to the rear (with the canted bay window) and left to the side range opening onto a single room. The first floor has two rooms front and rear, a small WC in the set back part, and a further two rooms to the side range (oversailing Greenfield House).

History

Early C19 house. A building is shown in its location on the 1838 Tithe Map, appearing largely in its current form on the first edition OS map of 1884, connected to houses on either side (Greenfield House, 18 High Street, also listed, to the west). A number of buildings in the plot to the north of 16 High Street are shown on the first edition OS Map onwards.

It is likely that during the C19 there was subdivision and annexation and rebuilding of the buildings along this part of the High Street. Greenfield House may have originally been two smaller dwellings with a dwelling facing onto the street via a now blocked door, and the current front door accessing a further dwelling. The second edition OS map of 1904 indicates that the current dwellings of 16 High Street and Greenfield House comprised three separate dwellings: Greenfield House with its gable to High Street and fronting onto a courtyard, 16 High Street with its single bay entrance elevation facing High Street and stepped back to the left, and set back further and linking the two a further separate dwelling. It is likely that the bay window to the rear of 16 High Street was added during this period although evidence in the fabric of the window suggests that it was either largely reformed, or built, post-1945.

It is probable that at some point, with all three dwellings under the same ownership, the linking block was subsumed into both 16 High Street and Greenfield House into the form that it exists today, with part of its ground floor an extension to Greenfield House and its first floor part of 16 High Street. At a later point Greenfield House and 16 High Street were divided under separate ownership with a flying freehold arrangement in the linking range.

Although some of the ground floor of the linking range is part of Greenfield House, this is separately listed (National Heritage List for England (NHLE) entry 1129787).

Reasons for Listing

16 High Street, Banwell, a vernacular house of the early C19, is listed at Grade II, for the following principal reasons:

Architectural interest:

* as a good example of a smaller village house of the early C19 with surviving traditional fabric and detail
* its form and appearance reflects its origins and later development in the C19 and C20

Historic interest:

* for its illustration of the development of vernacular village housing through the C19 and C20.

External Links

• Wikidata Q26606623

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Recommended Books

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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback