Ballifants
BALLIFANTS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1059243
- Date first listed:
- 04-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Ballifants
- Statutory Address:
- BALLIFANTS
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- Date:
- 2004-07-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/12823/28
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1059243
- Date first listed:
- 04-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Ballifants
- Statutory Address 1:
- BALLIFANTS
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:
- BALLIFANTS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ash Priors
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 15555 29385
Details
ST12NE ASH PRIORS CP
7/7 Ballifants -
- II
Farmhouse. Early C19. Red sandstone, coursed, squared, masonry, slate roofs, C20 external stack left, original one concealed behind parapet of tower, Tudor style. One and a half storeys with 2 storey hexagonal crenellated tower (right) with string course; coved cornice left; all windows 3-light wooden hollow chamfored mullions with plate glass; main block, 2 gabled dormers with hood moulds and finials, groundfloor, window on either side of single storey gabled porch with brick kneelers, hood mould and early C19 Tudor style door. A picturesque composition, similiar in style to Greenway House (qv) and part of the Sandhill Park (qv) estate. The family of Ballifants are recorded resident in Ash Priors in 1643 and it is possible that this house stands on the site of an earlier dwelling. (A. Baynham, Memorials of Ash Priors, 1905).
Listing NGR: ST1555529385
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 270219
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Baynham, A, Memorials of Ash Priors, (1905)
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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