Kingstone Farmhouse

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ST31SE KINGSTONE CP KINGSTONE VILLAGE

4/37 Kingstone Farmhouse

4.2.58

GV II*

Detached farmhouse. Early C16, reshaped C17 and later. Ham stone rubble and near ashlar, with ashlar dressings; plain clay tiled roof with stone slate base courses between stepped coped gables; stone and brick chimney stacks. 'T'-plan; 2 storeys with attics. Entrance in west crosswing which is 3-bay: hollow-chamfer mullioned windows to upper bay 1 and lower bays 2 and 3 (the latter of C20); blocked window upper bay 2, and 3-light C18 pattern leaded casement to upper bay 3; to lower bay 1 an ashlar stone porch with Welsh slate roof, the doorway probably of C19. On north gable of crosswing a 3-light hollow-chamfered mullioned window without label above, and below a l+2+l light angled bay window with beaded mullions and flat roof; against remainder of north elevation an outshut with a half-hipped 2-storey building attached to the north-east corner, (formerly thatched but unroofed March 1986). On east gable of east wing a 4-light mullioned window with label to first floor. The south elevation of 3 bays has the projecting gable of crosswing to bay 1, with proudstanding chimney stack and mullioned window to attic, with a 4 and a 3-light hollow chamfer. Mullioned window to lower bays 2 and 3, with C20 casement to upper bay 2 and stairlight to left; marked straight joint between bays 2 and 3; beaded mullioned window in return. Internally the north room of the west crosswing has two rough beams formerly plastered over, and in west wall a possible old fireplace concealed by C20 insertion; the central lobby has a later staircase possibly on the site of the original; and the south room has a 4-panel chamfer-beam ceiling, and the window in the east wall has vertical iron and saddlebars, with rebates for shutters, and another suspected early fireplace; the west room of the east wing has a modified fireplace with formerly a gable chimney, and a wattle-and-daub partition into outshut on north side, and the beams are chamfered with keel stops. The east room of the east wing is an addition; with second straight staircase, and keel-stopped beams with jettied arrangement to north wall. Not all the roof trusses are accessible, but in the west crosswing the trusses are windbraced in at least part, and are carried on the walls, not on crucks. It is suggested that this is a T-shaped house of the early C16, possibly all 2-storey but alternatively with a 3-bay open ball; the east room of the east wing and some modifications of c1600, with further modifications in the mid C18. To the north of the added room, and obscuring the jetty, a 2-storied building with one C18 window having internal shutters, and a small stair window in the west wall, with brick-built oven in north wall: there is said to be a well under the floor; this could be the successor to a detached kitchen. This property was the Rectory House of Kingstone, and was given to the Vicars Choral of Wells Cathedral in 1382. In 1636 the house carried an orchard, garden, two barns, a stable with outhouses and a great court with a pigeon house. By 1650 the accommodation is described as hall, kitchen, buttery, and several 'lodging rooms' over, with one barn (q.v) of stone with thatched roof. (VCH, Vol III, l974; VAG Report, unpublished SRO, March 1984).

Listing NGR: ST3781513669

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Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1974)
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in March, (1984)

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