Toomer Farmhouse
TOOMER FARMHOUSE, SHERBORNE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056308
- Date first listed:
- 15-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Toomer Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- TOOMER FARMHOUSE, SHERBORNE ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/12478/09
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056308
- Date first listed:
- 15-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Toomer Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOOMER FARMHOUSE, SHERBORNE ROAD
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:
- TOOMER FARMHOUSE, SHERBORNE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Henstridge
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 70831 19096
Details
ST71NW HENSTRIDGE CP SHERBORNE ROAD (South side)
6/98 Toomer Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse. Part C18, part C19, with earlier fragments. Local stone: North, C18 half coursed rubble, South C19 half, cut and squared, ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof between coped gables; brick and cast stone chimney stacks. 'U'-plan; 2 storeys 3 bays North elevation, of which outer bays are gabled, with linking parpet. 2-light leaded casements with iron opening lights above to outer bays and below a steel and a small-pane casement, all in plain openings with stone lintols; central chamfered pointed segmental doorway with pair boarded and studded doors; above a worn apparently Tudor cartouche of arms, under the top of a C15 cusped window light. South elevation 3 bays with outer projecting wings, string course between floors; 2-light casements with arched tracery glazing bars; central pair glazed doors set under deep lintol with 4-centre arch and incised carvings; on West side of C19 portion 2 oeil-de-boeuf windows, blocked and presumably reused; leaded casements to C18 portion. Interior not seen.
Listing NGR: ST7083119096
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261834
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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