Palfreys

PALFREYS, EAST STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1056916
Date first listed:
20-Sept-1988
List Entry Name:
Palfreys
Statutory Address:
PALFREYS, EAST STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1056916
Date first listed:
20-Sept-1988
List Entry Name:
Palfreys
Statutory Address 1:
PALFREYS, EAST 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
PALFREYS, EAST STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Drayton
National Grid Reference:
ST 40596 24772

Details

ST4024 DRAYTON CP EAST STREET (North side)

7/29 Palfreys

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GV II

House. C16, C17; C19 and C20 alteration. Coursed and squared rubble, freestone dressings, coped verges, 3 brick stacks, Open-hall house, later altered to 3 room and through-passage plan. Single storey and attic, 2 bays, 2 three-light and one single-light casements, window to first floor in a pent-roofed half- dormer, further 4-light stone-mullioned window to ground floor, iron casements, leaded lights, stopped label. Door opening onto the through-passage, C20 plank door with C17 iron strap hinges, massive wooden architrave. Further 3-light stone-mullioned window and casements in left return, Interior with panelled ceiling to the centre ground floor room; fireplace with a wooden bressumer; roof of cruck construction. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, April 1976).

Listing NGR: ST4061324790

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Legacy System number:
264350
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in April, (1976)

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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