KINGSTONE FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1056988
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:: KINGSTONE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: KINGSTONE FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1056988
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:: KINGSTONE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: KINGSTONE FARMHOUSE

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:: KINGSTONE FARMHOUSE

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Kingstone
National Grid Reference:: ST 37815 13669

Details

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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Legacy System number:: 264121
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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

Legal

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