HIGHER PRESTON FARM HOUSE

HIGHER PRESTON FARM HOUSE, PRESTON ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1056511
Date first listed:: 17-Oct-1983
List Entry Name:: HIGHER PRESTON FARM HOUSE
Statutory Address:: HIGHER PRESTON FARM HOUSE, PRESTON ROAD

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Date:: 1999-10-31
Reference:: IOE01/00109/04
Rights:: © Mr Brian Haigh. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1056511
Date first listed:: 17-Oct-1983
List Entry Name:: HIGHER PRESTON FARM HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: HIGHER PRESTON FARM HOUSE, PRESTON ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: HIGHER PRESTON FARM HOUSE, PRESTON ROAD

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Yeovil
National Grid Reference:: ST 53364 16201

Details

ST51NW YEOVIL CP PRESTON ROAD (South side)

1/65 Higher Preston Farm House

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Farmhouse, built 1649, but subsequently modified; Ham Stone, random coursed with fine face; plain Clay tile roof between coped gables, 2 end chimneys and one uff centre rebuilt in brick. Main South facade has irregular fenestration. 2-storeys, with one 4-light stone mullioned window with ovolo mouldings and label over, off-centre door (relocated) and on right-hand two 2-light mullioned windows with hollow chamfers; on first floor 5-C20 double windows. On North (street) facade two 3-light and one 4-light stone mullioned windows with large rectangular leaded panes, hollow chamfer moulded with labels over; at first floor level two 3-light wooden casements, one with ovolo mouldings, both with leaded panes. Interior not inspected, but Sir R Hall refers to lintol in kitchen fireplace dated 1649, and to elm ceiling beams with scroll stops to chamfers. The lean-to on the East side and all outbuildings of little interest. (Hall, Sir R. De Z. 'Post Medieval Land Tenure, Preston Plucknett' 1961 S.A.N.H.S. Proceedings Vol. 105).

Listing NGR: ST5336416201

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Legacy System number:: 261403
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society' in Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, , Vol. 105, (1961)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.