Wood House Farmhouse
WOOD HOUSE FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1039991
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Wood House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WOOD HOUSE FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET
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- Date:
- 2006-02-09
- Reference:
- IOE01/14991/19
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1039991
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Wood House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOOD HOUSE FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WOOD HOUSE FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ilton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 35021 18403
Details
ILTON CP MAIN STREET (West side, off) ST31NE
3/84 Wood House Farmhouse -.3.73
- II
Farmhouse. C17, much modified. Local stone rubble, some ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof between stepped coped gables; stone chimney stacks. 'T'- plan; 2 storeys, 4-bay south elevation, of which bay 2 is a projecting porch. C20 windows, metal-framed with rectangular leading, with slightly voussoired segmental-arched heads: projecting porch has gable with ball finial, with a chamfered cambered-arched doorway under large label with square stops bearing shields; above is a 3-light hollow-chamfered mullioned window with label. Projecting wings to rear. Interior not accessible - building unoccupied, on site owned by Ministry of Defence (January 1986). Said to have been built by John Wyndham in 1637, reusing materials from the original Merrifield House (also known as Wadham Castle), a moated building at NGR ST 3400 1780, 1km to west, then in ruins.
Listing NGR: ST3502118403
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 361589
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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