Court Farmhouse
COURT FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056217
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Court Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- COURT FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056217
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Court Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- COURT FARMHOUSE
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE COURT HOUSE
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:
- COURT FARMHOUSE
- Statutory Address:
- THE COURT HOUSE
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 35155 10035
Details
CHAFFCOMBE CP ST31SE - 2/1 Court Farmhouse - - II
Detached house. C15 and later, but with earlier origins. Local stone rubble, Ham stone dressings; concrete tile roof with plain gables; brick chimney stacks. Two storeys, 5 bays of irregular fenestration, of which bay 5 is a C20 addition. Bay I of front elevation has C20 leaded casement above, blank below; bay 2 has a hollow-chamfer mullioned window below, of 3 light without label, blank above; upper bay 3 has a C13 2-light window, relocated, and underneath a 2-light horizontal-bar casement in former doorway; bay 4 has 3-light casements, and bay 5 has small-pane casements. Towards the south end of the rear elevation a C15 window of 2 lights, trefoil-cusped in ogees, with moulted square label having (unidentified) shield stops, and below a chamfer-moulded 2-light mullioned window in chamfered recess without label; remainig windows of C20, with single-storey lean-to added to most of this side. South gable rendered. Various straight joints and blocked openings to elevations. Inside a modified 2-room plan, obviously not the original layout, which suggests a projecting wing to the south-east corner; square headed fireplace with chamfered surround in south room, with chamfered crossbeam with runout stops to that roof; in room above a similar fireplace with double wave-mould surround, and above are traces of a timber cornice, another section of which is now used as a prop alongside the fireplace below; roof space not accessible. This was the manor house of Chaffcombe Buller; fire mentioned in 1294: it became known as The Court House in the late C17, and later as Court Farm. (VCH Somerset, Vol IV, 1978 pl23).
Listing NGR: ST3515510035
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262128
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1978), 123
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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