Kingswood Farmhouse

KINGSWOOD FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1057509
Date first listed:
21-Dec-1984
List Entry Name:
Kingswood Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
KINGSWOOD FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1057509
Date first listed:
21-Dec-1984
List Entry Name:
Kingswood Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
KINGSWOOD FARMHOUSE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
KINGSWOOD FARMHOUSE

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

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Stogumber
National Grid Reference:
ST 10404 37831

Details

ST13NW STOGUMBER CP KINGSWOOD

6/181 Kingswood Farmhouse

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- II

Farmhouse now cottage. C16, enlarged C17-C18, altered early C19 and mid C20. Rendered over rubble right 2 bays, and recessed outer bay left, rendered possibly over cob centre 2 bays right which project forward about 300 mm from left bays with quoins, slate roof set at slightly shallower pitch end 2 bays right, brick stack left at junction with addition, right gable end large external stepped stone stack, large rendered stack at junction of 2 blocks. Plan: thought to be originally a 2 cell gable-end entry house, kitchen added right, possibly C17-C18, and early C19 cider cellar added left when reroofed. 2 storeys, end bay left unlit first floor, two 3-light early C19 leaded iron casements right with Cl9 wooden casements in segmental headed openings beyond, groundfloor 2 casements left and one right of gabled porch with half glazed plank door. Interior not viewed. Said to have contained wattle and daub timbered framed partition dividing 2 bays left with similar partition surviving on first floor rising to apex of jointed cruck truss, chamfered beams with step and runout stops, those in kitchen right thought to have been reused. Gable-end entry houses are comparatively rare in West Somerset. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, August 1975).

Listing NGR: ST1040437831

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
264944
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

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Vernacular Architecture Group Report in August, (1975)

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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