Tolleys Farmhouse
TOLLEYS FARMHOUSE, TOLLEYS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056179
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Tolleys Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- TOLLEYS FARMHOUSE, TOLLEYS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056179
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Tolleys Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOLLEYS FARMHOUSE, TOLLEYS LANE
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:
- TOLLEYS FARMHOUSE, TOLLEYS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chaffcombe
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 35725 08881
Details
CHAFFCOMBE CP TOLLEYS LANE (East side) ST30NE LYDMARSH
4/5 Tolleys Farmhouse - - II
Detached house. C15, with modifications. Local stone rubble, some cob, all rendered and colourwashed half-hipped thatched roof; brick chimney stacks. Single-storey with attic, 4 bays, Casement windows, mostly with horizontal bars, 3-light below. except bay 4 which is 2-light; above, 2-light windows bays 1, 3 and 4, the first under the eaves and the others set into thatched dormers, and to bay 2 an earlier pattern 4-light casement also set into thatch; C20 porch with C20 doorway between bays 2/3. Further casement windows in north gable; lean-to at rear. Interior has deep-chamfered crossbeam to lower ceilings, one with long step and runouts, with sockets and mortices for wattle and doorframes; 2 old simple fireplaces, both adapted: roof frame of 4 pairs of jointed crucks with trenched purlins, and one wattle-and-daub partition on first floor. Originally one house, subdivided later into 2 or 3 houses and now one property again. The foundations of a previous farmhouse to this site said to survive to west. The settlement recorded by 1170. (VCH Somerset, Vol IV, 1978, p128).
Listing NGR: ST3570608858
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262132
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1978), 121
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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