THE PRIEST'S HOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1056574
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-1959
List Entry Name:: THE PRIEST'S HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE PRIEST'S HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1056574
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-1959
List Entry Name:: THE PRIEST'S HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE PRIEST'S HOUSE

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:: THE PRIEST'S HOUSE

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District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Muchelney
National Grid Reference:: ST 42921 24961

Details

MUCHELNEY CP ST42SW - 8/225 The Priest's house 17.4.59

GV I

Priest's Lodging, C14 and later. Local lias stone roughly cut and squared, Ham stone dressings; thatched roof with stepped coped gable to west, half hipped to east; brick chimney stacks. Two storeys, 4-bay south elevation. Bay 1 has 3-light chamfered mullioned windows, possibly C19, with flat heads, and square labels; bay 2 has moulded pointed arched doorway with arched label, old boarded and studded door, with covermoulds to joints; bay 3 has a 4-light full-height mullioned and transomed solar type window, with 4-centre arched lights below transome and cinquefoil cusped lights above, with quatrefoils in tracery, late C15 probably, all under square label; bay 4 has a 4-light hollow chamfered mullioned window with 4-centre arched lights having some early external ferramenta, under square label; above a small 2-light window with trefoil cusped lights and incised spandrils, possibly C14, this last cut into thatch: all windows leaded, bay 1 with rectangular panes, the remainder with diamond panes. Internally, cross passage layout, with solid walls to cross-passage; west room has small plain fireplace with chamfered and cambered timber lintol with scroll stops, and this and ceiling beams suggest C17 reshaping at this end: four-centre arched moulded doorway with wood frame to east wall of passage; centre room has adapted wave-mould fireplace, and partition against parlour part stone and part wattle and daub, including a semi-circular headed stone doorway with plain chamfer; 4 sections of a 6-panel moulded beam and panel ceiling remain, the others removed for staircase; at first floor level another wattle and daub partition over cross-passage with later door cut in. Roof frame incorporates raised crucks, except at west end. The original form and subsequent alteration of house much discussed: the house first mentioned 1308, said to be "ruinous' in 1608; it was used by the vicar or curate until c1840, when the house was used as a cellar and later as a school, and in late C19 was rented by a farmer. Acquired by the National Trust in 1911. (VCH, vol III, 1974; Panten W A, Medieval Priest's Houses in south west England, Medieval Archaeology 1957; Wood M, The English Medieval House, 1965; VAG Reports, Unpublished SRO, 1972 and 1979).

Listing NGR: ST4291824962

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 263287
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1974)
Wood, E , The English Medieval House, (1965)
'Medieval Archaeology' in Medieval Archaeology, (1957)

Legal

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