Tudor Cottage
TUDOR COTTAGE, BROADWAY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1057044
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Tudor Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- TUDOR COTTAGE, BROADWAY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1057044
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Tudor Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- TUDOR COTTAGE, BROADWAY 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:
- TUDOR COTTAGE, BROADWAY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Broadway
- National Grid Reference:
- ST3199515428
Details
ST31NW BROADWAY CP BROADWAY STREET (north side)
3/7 Tudor Cottage
4.2.58
GV II*
Farmhouse. now dwelling C16, altered and extended C18, restored early C20. Squared and coursed local stone, Ham stone
dressings, thatched roof, brick stack left gable end, to right of through passage and set in from gable end right,
Plan: 3-cell and cross passage facing south, extended one bay west, now garage, outshot at rear. Two storeys, 3 bays,
5-light mullioned window left, 2- and 3-light windows right, ground floor 5-light hollow chamfer stole mullioned window
cut flat on reverse, replica 3-light stone mullioned windows to right of entrance, garage doors end bay right; hooded
thatched porch to C20 studded plank door. Interior: plank and muntin screen with cambered head to kichen, chamfered
beams with step and runout slops, large recess to right of fireplace, cambered head to outhot. Hall with chamfered
lintel and chamfered stone jambs to fireplace, chamfered beads with unusual stops, probably imported early C13 straight
stair with opening string, turned balusters, moulded handrail and square newel with turned finial, plank and muntin
screen to inner roof with cambered head, Three pairs of jointed cruck trusses at east end, 2 pairs of framed collar
beam trusses west. Hall stack rising independently between 2 cruck trusss with 'a frame of long converging studs'
described in 1972 by Sir R de Z Hall as 'unique in our experience so far'. There is said to be evidence of smoke
blackening, otherwise this would have seemed to be an obvious example of an open hall house. In the 1920s and '30s the
house belonged to the well-known Taunton antique dealer Captain Halliday and he is known to have imported and altered
some features on the ground floor. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, December 1972; photograph in NMR),
Listing NGR: ST3199515428
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 264062
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in December, (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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