The Old Farmhouse
THE OLD FARMHOUSE, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056099
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD FARMHOUSE, WEST STREET
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- Date:
- 2003-07-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/09222/21
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056099
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD 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.
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:
- THE OLD FARMHOUSE, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hinton St. George
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 41898 12567
Details
ST4112 HINTON ST GEORGE CP WEST STREET (South side)
7/88 The Old Farmhouse 4.2.38
GV II
Semi-detached farmhouse. Possibly C16, altered in C17 and C18. Ham stone roughly cut and squared, ashlar dressings; thatched roof with stepped coped gable to east, continuation to west; brick chimney stacks. Single-storey with attics, 6 bays. Hollow-chamfer mullioned windows in chamfered recesses with labels, all 3-light. Attic windows of 2-light horizontal-bar casements set into thatch, bays 2, 4 and 5. Boarded door set in heavy frame, beaded and slightly camfered, in bay 3, in a recess up 3 steps. Between bays 2/3 a projecting chimney breast with band course and double offsets. Blocked window at front of east gable, later casement windows towards rear. Interior not seen, but reported is a 3-room cross passage plan; hall has a chamfered-arched fireplace in north wall; parlour has a shell-hood recess in position of blocked window; 3rd room has stud and panelled partition. Most beams cased, but one deep chamfered with step and runout stop, another shallow-chamfered with cyna-recta stop: remains of jointed cruck built into wall near west gable, still visible in roof, although roof frame raised at some stage, (Attached to west gable is Cobbles (qv)). (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, 1973).
Listing NGR: ST4189812567
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262338
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, (1973)
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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