Olive Farmhouse
OLIVE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056549
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Olive Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- OLIVE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056549
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Olive Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLIVE FARMHOUSE
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:
- OLIVE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Somerset
- District:
- South Somerset (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Babcary
- National Grid Reference:
- ST5749228477
Details
ST52NE
3/1
BABCARY CP
Olive Farmhouse
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- GV II
Detached farmhouse. Early C18, and C19. Local lias stone cut and squared; Welsh slate roofs between coped gables, the
C19 section to a shallower pitch; brick chimney stacks. Solid U-plan, 2 storeys; north elevation 6 bays irregular
fenestration. Projecting from bay 1 a single storey wing linked by covered way, with door and sidelight in main block;
boarded doors bays 2 and 6; horizontal bar casement windows in old frames lower bays 3 and 5; both with timber lintols,
and also upper bays 3, 4 and 5, that to bay 4 set higher in a flat-roofed dormer. In west gable a C18 timber framed
window. South elevation of 3 bays, the outer bays gabled and linked by coped plain parapet: 16-pane sash windows in
plain openings under Keinton stone lintols; to lower bay 2 a boarded door under a margined fanlight, set in Keinton
slab surround under simple open pediment type hood. Interior not seen.
Listing NGR: ST5749228477
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263321
- 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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