Fulwood Farmhouse,railings and Gate Fronting Road
FULWOOD FARMHOUSE,RAILINGS AND GATE FRONTING ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060295
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Fulwood Farmhouse,railings and Gate Fronting Road
- Statutory Address:
- FULWOOD FARMHOUSE,RAILINGS AND GATE FRONTING ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060295
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Fulwood Farmhouse,railings and Gate Fronting Road
- Statutory Address 1:
- FULWOOD FARMHOUSE,RAILINGS AND GATE FRONTING ROAD
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:
- FULWOOD FARMHOUSE,RAILINGS AND GATE FRONTING ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Pitminster
- National Grid Reference:
- ST2104120413
Details
ST22SW
6/111
PITMINSTER CP
FULWOOD
Fulwood Farmhouse, railings and gate fronting road
II
GV
Farmhouse. Late medieval, ceiled C17 and enlarged with cross wing, refenestrated late
C19-early C20. Roughcast over rubble, brick north front and east gable end, clay tiled
roof, large external roughcast stack north west gable end,another roughly centre of
main block. Plan: open hall house lying north-south with possibly open loft at northern
end, ceiled to 2-cell and cross passage with northern cross wing addition and south -
western gabled wing added later. One and a half storeys, irregular fenestration, left
windows flanking stack in gable end, one window left ground floor by outshut, centre
gabled dormer rising in roof space, one window set below eaves right, ground floor
entrance left, 2 windows right, right gable end with one window opening. Interior not
seen, said to contain 2 arch-braced jointed cruck trusses visible in medieval range, 6
-panel compartment ceiling to hall with moulded beams, similar 4-panel ceiling in
west end room of cross wing, eastern room of wing originally kitchen with oven and
furnace. Railings early C19 cast iron, linking gable ends of farmhouse and enclosing
forecourt; spearhead uprights with urn standards, swept up to single gate of similar
design. The property would seem to be an early example of brick in the Taunton area
and a significant example of the developments that the medieval farmhouse underwent
in the C17. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO,June 1975).
Listing NGR: ST2104120413
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 271057
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in June, (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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