Leigh Hill Gate and Crib Close
CRIB CLOSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060297
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Leigh Hill Gate and Crib Close
- Statutory Address:
- CRIB CLOSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060297
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Leigh Hill Gate and Crib Close
- Statutory Address 1:
- CRIB CLOSE
- Statutory Address 2:
- LEIGH HILL GATE
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:
- CRIB CLOSE
- Statutory Address:
- LEIGH HILL GATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Pitminster
- National Grid Reference:
- ST1897217679
Details
ST11NE
9/210
PITMINSTER CP
LOWTON
Leigh Hill Gate and Crib Close
II
Detached cottage, in two occupations. C17 with later modifications. Roughcast on stone
and cob, one gable, to west, in coursed? rubble; hipped thatched roof, one early
field-stone stack, one late C20 brick stack. Original building L-plan with through-way
dividing living accommodation from byre or farm outbuilding, wing added later on west
side, One and a half storey. Elevations have scattered 2 or 3-light casements with steel
generally, two windows in eyebrows to thatch on east side and a small 2-light casement
in eyebrow in opposed position in the south wing. Plank door set between 3-light casement
and a late C20 French door on east front: on this side also two other large square
openings, one far left with plank door, the other blocked: a date stone over inscribed
roughly "William Allen l738". A date of 1609 or 1669 reported on central stack. One west
side a further plank door in large square opening under small light in eyebrow. Interior
retains some original roof timbers, a few rough chamfered beams, and one modified fire
opening under a timber bressumer carried on heading timber posts as cheeks, but that to
right possibly inserted later. Floor of broken lias slabs in southern wing.
Listing NGR: ST1897217679
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 271060
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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