30, Lower Street and Manor Cottage
30, LOWER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056863
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- 30, Lower Street and Manor Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- 30, LOWER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056863
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 30, Lower Street and Manor Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- 30, LOWER STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- MANOR COTTAGE, LOWER STREET
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:
- 30, LOWER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR COTTAGE, LOWER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Merriott
- National Grid Reference:
- ST4446912321
Details
ST4412 MERRIOTT CP LOWER STREET (South side)
9/136 No 30 and Manor Cottage
(formerly listed as Manor Farm
House)
4.2.53
GV II
Former farmhouse, now divided into two houses. Dated 1663; modified in C19, Has stone cut and squared; ashlar
dressings; thatched roof between coped gables; brick chimney stacks. Two storeys, 4 bays. 0volo-mould mullioned
windows: to bay 2 in a 1+3+1 light two-storey angled bay with gable over on shaped kneelers between ground floor bays
3/4 a 4-light in chamfered recess with separate label; a former 3-light with label now adapted for C20 door and
sidelight, up 3 steps. T first floor bays 3 and 4 are 3-light horizontal-bar casements, in walling evidently raised. To
lower bay 3 a plain chamfered recess with lintol inscribed 'IKT/1663' in incised rectangle, with C19 door up 3 steps.
Signs of blocked window east of bay 4. East gable has 3-light mullioned window in wave-mould recess, under label, to
first floor; and west gable a 2-light under a hoodmould to lower level. Rear elevation has C19 casement windows, and
two extensions, one under thatched roof and one with concrete double pantiles. Interior not seen, but plan said to be
of cross-passage with parlour to one side, and dairy entered through the hall, which includes the bay window (Barley
M.W, The English Farmhouse & Cottage, 1961, p217; VAG Report, unpublished SRO, November 1972).
Listing NGR: ST4446912321
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262386
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Barley, M W, The English Farmhouse and Cottage, (1961), 217
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in November, (1972)
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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