Wadhams Farmhouse
- Date:
- 9 Sep 1999
- Location:
- Wadhams Farmhouse, Chipstable, Taunton Deane, Somerset, TA4 2PT
- Reference:
- IOE01/00105/31
- Type:
- Photograph (Digital)
This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
ST02NE CHIPSTABLE -
2/4 Wadhams Farmhouse
-
- II
Farmhouse, now derelict and used as agricultural store. Probably mid C17 enlarged one bay east soon after, refenestrated and enlarged one bay west early C19. Roughcast over rubble and cob, wall in end bay set at a slight angle, slate roof, stone stacks left of cross passage, gable end right, and between first and second bays right. Plan: 2-cell and cross passage with coeval outshots enlarged with a new kitchen to right of earlier one, store with bedroom over added left gable end. Two storeys, 5 bays, first floor 16-pane sash window, ground floor left blind opening in gabled porch. Much overgrown at time of survey (June 1985) with large hole below eaves exposing crumbling cob wall between second and third bays left. Interior not accessible: said to contain left of cross passage another plastered beam and rod and daub screen to rear wall with evidence to suggest that there was a drying kiln in outshot, also evidence of curing chamber beside fireplace in kitchen addition to east. (VAG report, unpublished SRO, March 1983).
Listing NGR: ST0553526585
This is part of the Series: IOE01/0030 IOE Records taken by G Martine Allmey; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Mrs G Martine Allmey. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Allmey, G Martine
Rights Holder: Allmey, G Martine
Cob, Roughcast, Rubble, Slate, Stuart Farmhouse, Domestic, Agricultural Dwelling, Dwelling, House, Agriculture And Subsistence, Farm Building, Agricultural Building, Cross Passage House, Monument (By Form), Storehouse, Unassigned, Building
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