Hymerford House
HYMERFORD HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1057157
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Hymerford House
- Statutory Address:
- HYMERFORD HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1057157
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Hymerford House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HYMERFORD HOUSE
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:
- HYMERFORD HOUSE
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 53904 12924
Details
ST5312 EAST COKER CP NORTH COKER
11/161 Hymerford House (also known as Grove Farmhouse) 19.4.61
GV I
House. C15 and later. Local stone rubble with lime rendering and Ham stone dressings; thatched roof between coped gables; brick end and stone intermediate chimney stacks. Hall house will inserted floors, added C16 front and rear porches and other modifications. 2-storeys West facade of 6 bays with extensions to the South, including Grove Cottage (qv), with projecting porches at bay 5. Bay 1 has 3-light leaded casement windows; bay-2 has 2-lights, the lower being set in a previous doorway; bays 3 and 4 have single tall 2-light pointed arched windows with transomes, C15 tracery, external ferramenta and arched label moulds with square stops; bay-5 porch has outer panelled archway and possibly earlier inner doorway with label with one square stop, one shield, stone seats to sides and 4-panel ceiling with ovolo-mould ribs; above a 2-light cusped arched window under square label, the gable being coped with a ball finial; bay-6 a repeat of bay-1, then comes Grove Cottage (qv). At the rear is a flat roofed extension to bay-6, above which is a C20 doorway set into a newly discovered old doorway, and bay-5 has an extension incorporating a pointed arch doorway; windows mostly modern casements, some leaded, but in South of bay-6 is an early timber casement. Inside, the screens passage is a modern restoration, but with two arches in South wall, one round-headed, one pointed arched; and in the kitchen large cambered arch fireplace using massive stones, with bread oven, spit, salt recess. Hall now divided by intermediate floor. Traces of roof visible at first floor level, including very fine carved eaves plates to front and back walls with some colouring to ornamentation, and apparently jointed crucks, from which the lower joints have been removed. The West porch roof exposed and mostly of original timbers - jointed cruck trusses and rib and panel pitcher ceiling. Remains of various doorways, windows etc., of probably late medieval date. Attached to South side is Grove Cottage (qv), and in grounds former sheep dip (qv).
Listing NGR: ST5390412924
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263719
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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