SEYMOURS COURT FARMHOUSE

SEYMOURS COURT FARMHOUSE, RUDGE LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1058220
Date first listed:: 11-Mar-1968
List Entry Name:: SEYMOURS COURT FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: SEYMOURS COURT FARMHOUSE, RUDGE LANE

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Date:: 1999-10-11
Reference:: IOE01/00728/23
Rights:: © Mr Ronald J Smith. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1058220
Date first listed:: 11-Mar-1968
List Entry Name:: SEYMOURS COURT FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: SEYMOURS COURT FARMHOUSE, RUDGE LANE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: SEYMOURS COURT FARMHOUSE, RUDGE LANE

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Beckington
National Grid Reference:: ST 81167 52707

Details

ST85SW BECKINGTON CP RUDGE LANE

5/51 Seymours Court Farmhouse

11.3.68

I

Farmhouse. C15, C16 and C17 alterations and additions. Rubble, stone tile roof, coped verges, rubble stacks, that to right projecting. Cross passage plan. Two storeys, 2:2 bays, 4-light ogee-moulded stone king-mullioned windows, those to ground floor with relieving arches, casements with leaded lights; left 2 windows under stopped labels, right 2 windows under a string course. Central C15 2-storey cross-gabled porch, 2 stage diagonal buttresses; 2-light moulded stone nullioned window to first floor, each light with a cusped head, dripmould over with diamond terminals, casements with leaded lights; broad door opening in a moulded 4 centred stone surround, dripmould; inner door opening in a moulded 4-centred stone surround, ribbled door. Stair turret to right of rear, 3 further 2-light mullioned windows, each light with a cusped head; door opening in a 4-centred stone surround, further blocked door opening. Interior:- fine fireplace to right ground floor room in a 4-centred stone surround, flanked by plain pilasters with scroll capitals, moulded cornice mantle overall; decorative early C17 plaster ceiling; hall with blocked lateral stone fireplace; arch-braced roof of C15. Once the home of Thomas Lord Seymour of Sudely, who married Queen Catherine Parr executed in 1549. (Country Life, 4 April 1908; VAG Report, Unpublished SRO, August 1980)

Listing NGR: ST8116752707

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Legacy System number:: 267028
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in August, (1980)
'Country Life' in 4 April, (1908)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.