St Algars Farmhouse
ST ALGARS FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1058902
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- St Algars Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ST ALGARS FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1058902
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- St Algars Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST ALGARS 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.
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:
- ST ALGARS FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Selwood
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 78768 41945
Details
ST74SE SELWOOD CP WEST WOODLANDS
9/469 St. Algars Farmhouse
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GV II*
Farmhouse. C14, further alterations of C17, further C19 work. Random rubble, dressed quoins, tile roofs, two rendered stacks, one of brick. Irregular frontage under 3 gables of varying heights. Two storeys and attics, 1:1:1 bays, 2 and 3-light hollow-moulded stone-mullioned windows to first 2 bays from left, 9-pane sash windows in plain stone surrounds to right bay. Door opening to left in a bead-moulded stone surround, 4 panelled door, top 2 panels glazed; pent roofed rubble porch. Former chapel of a monastic settlement set back to left return, 2-light C20 stone-mullioned window with leaded lights, remainder of a much larger opening now blocked. Virtually all of the C14 arch- braced collar beam roof remains over the chapel; a squint extant in its north wall. Further early timberwork to be seen in the barn 2 metres to rear of the farmhouse (qv) (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, August 1982).
Listing NGR: ST7876841945
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 267416
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in August, (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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