Bratton Farmhouse

BRATTON FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1056276
Date first listed:
18-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:
Bratton Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
BRATTON FARMHOUSE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1056276
Date first listed:
18-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:
Bratton Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
BRATTON FARMHOUSE

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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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
BRATTON FARMHOUSE

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

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Bratton Seymour
National Grid Reference:
ST6769829714

Details

ST62NE
4/33

BRATTON SEYMOUR CP
BRATTON SEYMOUR VILLAGE
Bratton Farmhouse

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II

Detached house, formerly farmhouse, C16 with modifications. Local stone rubble roughly coursed; plain clay tile roof with simple eaves; brick chimney stacks. 'L'plan; 2 storeys, 6 bays irregular fenestration to east elevation. Mostly casement windows, of several types; 3-light small-pane casements upper bays 1 and 2 and both levels bay 4; horizontal bar casements upper bay 3 and lower bay 6; leaded casements with iron framed opening lights upper bay 6 and both levels bay 5; 16-pane sash window lower bay 1 and 1960's French doors lower bay 2. Southwards return wing has mid C20 casements in gable, then through passage to entrance in north-west corner, west of this double garage doors with casement over, and at west end of this wing a single-storey studio, to full roof height: entrance door of 6 flush-panel pattern set under moulded stone hood on corbel brackets. Interior has deep chamfered beams with step and runout-stops; circular stone staircase with stone stairlight, now internal; at first floor level a plank partition and a C16 doorway, other doors of several periods; collar beam trusses and collar-and-tie beam trusses of early pattern; traces of curing chamber in north gable.
Probably on site of Saxon Manor. (M Whitfield, In Praise of Bratton St Maur, 1974).


Listing NGR: ST6769829714

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
261969
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Whitfield, M, In Praise of Bratton St Maur, (1974)

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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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