Pound Farmhouse
POUND FARMHOUSE, TANYARD LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056579
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Pound Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- POUND FARMHOUSE, TANYARD LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056579
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Pound Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- POUND FARMHOUSE, TANYARD LANE
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:
- POUND FARMHOUSE, TANYARD LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Somerset
- District:
- South Somerset (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Huish Episcopi
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 42768 26421
Details
The following building shall be added:-
HUISH EPISCOPI TANYARD LANE ST 4226 11/253 Pound Farmhouse II
Derelict farmhouse. C17. Dressed limestone, partly rendered. Gable-ended roof has collapsed. Brick shafts to central axial and left hand end stacks. Plan: 3 room plan. The hall on the left has an axial stack backing onto the central unheated room. There was originally a through passage between the centre and unheated right hand room which has no windows. There is a C20 outshut at the front of the right hand end. Exterior: 2 storeys. Assymetrical 2-windows front. Stone mullion windows with headmoulds on ground and first floor; on left 3-light windows with rebated chamfers; at centre 2-light windows with cavetto chamfers. Doorways to right and left of centre. Rear elevation has some later windows and doorway to left of centre. Interior: Plank and muntin screen between centre and right hand rooms (left side of former through passage) Plank screen in hall chamber has fallen into hall. Timber-framed partition to side of axial stack has cambered head to doorway. Hall fireplace has large cambered chamfered timber lintel. Remains of another timber lintel on hall floor. The floors and roof have largely collapsed but the blade of a jointed cruck truss is lying outside behind the house. Only a few of the rafters, a large side purlin and the ridge purlin remain.
Listing NGR: ST4276626422
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263200
- 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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