Burton Cottage Farmhouse
BURTON COTTAGE FARMHOUSE, HIGHER BURTON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057150
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Burton Cottage Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BURTON COTTAGE FARMHOUSE, HIGHER BURTON
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057150
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Burton Cottage Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BURTON COTTAGE FARMHOUSE, HIGHER BURTON
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:
- BURTON COTTAGE FARMHOUSE, HIGHER BURTON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- East Coker
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 53457 13413
Details
ST51SW EAST COKER CP HIGHER BURTON (North East side) NORTH COKER
4/152 Burton Cottage Farmhouse (formerly listed as House 315 yards East North East of Skinners Hill Farmhouse) 19.4.61
- II
Farmhouse. C15 or C16, modified. Rubble stonework with Ham stone dressings, some cob walling, mostly rendered and colourwashed; thatch with plain verges and uneven ridge to South East end; end and central brick chimney stacks. Cross-entry long-house type; single- storey with attic, 4-bays. C19 casement window of 3-lights to bay-1, with earlier leaded casement window set into thatch above; to bay-2 a 3-light ovolo-mould stone mullioned window with rectangular leaded panes under label, with 3-light casement window above; lean-to buttresses on either side bay-2; plain entrance door and small leaded pane single light casement window bay-3, with 2-light casement window above; C20 2-light leaded window in artificial stone surround bay-4. Interior not seen, but jointed cruck trusses with straight windbraces and some wattle and daub partitions are reported : bay-4 was agricultural store and stable until 1975. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, 1976).
Listing NGR: ST5347013403
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263710
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, (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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