Tetts Farmhouse

TETTS FARMHOUSE, WEST STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1056098
Date first listed:
04-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:
Tetts Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
TETTS FARMHOUSE, WEST STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1056098
Date first listed:
04-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:
Tetts Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
TETTS FARMHOUSE, WEST 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
TETTS FARMHOUSE, WEST STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Somerset
District:
South Somerset (District Authority)
Parish:
Hinton St. George
National Grid Reference:
ST4195712595

Details

ST4112 HINTON ST GEORGE CP WEST STREET (South side)

7/86 Tetts Farmhouse

4.2.58

GV II

Detached house. Later C16, modified in late C17 and later. Ham stone near-ashlar; thatched roof between stepped coped
gables, brick chimney stacks. Two storeys, 4 bays. Hollow-chamfered mullioned windows in chamfered recesses to first
floor bay 3, 2-liqht without label, and ground floor bay 2, a 4-light with label; C20 small-pane casement upper bay 1
under timber lintol, and to lower bay 4, a 3-light with voussoired flat arch; early pattern leaded casements to upper
bays 2 and 4, both with timber lintols, and lower bay 1, 2-light with timber lintol, these with iron-framed opening
lights. To lower bay 3 a late Cl9 part-glazed door in plain opening with voussoired flat arch. West gable has a
buttress with offset, of possibly C18 date, and a break in the wall line at the rear, as well as a blocked window
opening. At higher level at least 5 openings for pigeons, not systematically arranged. Attached to east gable a C20
reshaped barn, no longer of special interest. Interior not seen, but reported is a former three-room cross-passage
plan, blocked by the insertion of a lager fireplace; stud and panel partition between east rooms; centre room has a
framed ceiling of 6 panels; the west room widened on south side: in roof three jointed cruck trusses, 2 closed with
wattle and daub (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, March 1979).


Listing NGR: ST4195712595

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
262336
Legacy System:
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Sources

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Vernacular Architecture Group Report in March, (1979)

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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