SWAN THATCH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1056966
Date first listed:: 18-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: SWAN THATCH
Statutory Address:: SWAN THATCH

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Date:: 2003-07-10
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1056966
Date first listed:: 18-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: SWAN THATCH
Statutory Address 1:: SWAN THATCH

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:: SWAN THATCH

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Seavington St. Michael
National Grid Reference:: ST4099215215

Details

SEAVINGTON ST MICHAEL CP ST41NW SEAVINGTON ST MICHAEL VILLAGE 2/80 Swan Thatch

GV II

Detached cottage, apparently once divided. Circa 1600 origins, modified. Ham stone rubble; thatched roof between stepped coped gables; brick end and intermediate chimney stacks. Two storeys, four bays. Horizontal-bar casement windows, 4-light bay 1 and 3-light bays 3 and 4, all with timber lintels, the window to upper bay 1 set into the thatch, where the eaves over bays 1 and 2 is set lower: to bay 2 a boarded door in heavy frame, and similar door in deep recess left of bay 4. Timber leanto against west gable and linking covered wing on east gable. 0utshut to rear. Interior not seen, but reported is a 3-room cross-passage plan of what was probably a single-storey house originally, with stair and main fireplace alongside the passage; fireplace has one side timber-framed, with timber-framed smoke hood above, and the central room has a 6-panel beamed ceiling; oven on northwest corner, probably of later date; roof trusses of early collar and tie beam type, closed posts. Enclosing a small garden, about 1.2 metres deep, to bays 3 and 4 only a low stone wall with wrought-iron spearpoint railings, having arch-braced urn-cap finials, matching gate opposite bay 4 door, carved returns to each end, adding to setting of the house, which was formerly the village bakery, and which later served as a Post 0ffice. (VAG Report, unpublished SR0, January 1979).

Listing NGR: ST4099215215

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Legacy System number:: 264169
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in January, (1979)

Legal

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