Marshwood Farmhouse
MARSHWOOD FARMHOUSE, WOOD LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1057364
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Marshwood Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MARSHWOOD FARMHOUSE, WOOD LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1057364
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Marshwood Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARSHWOOD FARMHOUSE, WOOD LANE
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:
- MARSHWOOD FARMHOUSE, WOOD LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Carhampton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 02247 42950
Details
ST04SW CARHAMPTON CP WOOD LANE Blue Anchor
8/29 Marshwood Farmhouse
22.5.69
- II*
Manor house or grange, now farmhouse. Late C15, late C16-early C17 north-east and north-west wings added, hall ceiled and plasterwork decoration, subsequently front wall raised, porch added, altered C18, 1883 roof reslated, 1955 extension to rear of north east wing demolished, restored late C20. Roughcast over rubble, quoins to porch, asbestos slate roofs hipped to right, decorative ridge tiles, brick stack left gable end, tall brick stack rising from eaves, rebuilt stone stack in north-east wing. Plan; open hall ceiled to 3 cell, stair turret and north-west and north-east wings. Two storeys, 3:1:2:2 bays; all C20 casements except in porch and north-east wing, three 3-light casements left of porch, 3-light stone ovolo moulded mullioned window in gabled full height porch, two 3-light windows right, set back wing with part of mullioned window under hood mould cut with another window opening beyond, ground floor 3-light windows left flanking C20 half-glazed door, two 3-light right of porch, raking buttresses, ground floor of wing masked by additions; moulded Ham stone semi-circular headed opening with imposts to porch, inside 2 reset plasterwork panels, said to have come from Dunster Castle, unidentified allegorical scene left, Sacrifice of Isaac right, moulded Tudor arch head doorway, studded plank door with long hinges. Rear elevation: 2 stone ovolo moulded 3-light mullioned windows. Interior; porch opens into 18-panel framed compartment ceiling divided by later partitions, moulded frame to winder stairs with newel post opening off central hall; north west wing, now dairy, contains plasterwork overmantel with heraldic device between supporters above a Ham stone moulded Tudor arch head fireplace similar but more ornate overmantel on first floor said to display the arcs of lane Popham who carried Thomas Lutterell in 1621; barrel vaulted bedroom ceiling with plasterwork decoration in the tympana, some concealed in roof space, An interesting and complex building. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, January 1981; Photographs in NMR Pevsner, Buildings of England South and West Somerset, 1958).
Listing NGR: ST0224742950
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265311
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in January, (1982)
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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