Northfield Farmhouse With Laburnum Cottage
LABURNUM COTTAGE, NORTHFIELD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056671
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Northfield Farmhouse With Laburnum Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- LABURNUM COTTAGE, NORTHFIELD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056671
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Northfield Farmhouse With Laburnum Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- LABURNUM COTTAGE, NORTHFIELD
- Statutory Address 2:
- NORTHFIELD FARMHOUSE, NORTHFIELD
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:
- LABURNUM COTTAGE, NORTHFIELD
- Statutory Address:
- NORTHFIELD FARMHOUSE, NORTHFIELD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Somerton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST4811428719
Details
ST4828 SOMERTON CP NORTHFIELD (West side)
8/200 Northfield Farmhouse with
Laburnum Cottage
-
- II
Detached farmhouse. Probably C16. Local lias stone cut and squared, Ham stone dressings; thatched roof between coped
gables, with clay double Roman tiles over Laburnum Cottage; brick chimney stacks. Two storeys with attic, 3 wide bays;
bay 3, the eastermost, being Laburnum Cottage. Hollow chamfered mullioned windows of 3, 4 and 4 lights below and 3,3
and 2 lights above, all having labels except upper bay 3, and all but upper bays 1 and 2 have unworked top mitres;
leading to some windows, with some internal vertical iron bars: between bays 1 and 2 a boarded door in heavy frame
protected by C20 porch. Matching windows and entrance in east gable. Interior not seen, but reported is shallow stair
turret (masked by rear lean to outbuildings); chamfered beams with stepped runouts; possibly wattle and daubed
partition said to have a painted mural, papered over; open fireplace in west gable, with ogee head to stone lined oven
to rear, and earlier form of bacon curing chamber: roof timbers probably late C17, seemingly raised. (VAG Report,
unpublished SRO, 1977).
Listing NGR: ST4811428719
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263008
- 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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