WREXON FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1060329
Date first listed:: 07-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: WREXON FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: WREXON FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1060329
Date first listed:: 07-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: WREXON FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: WREXON FARMHOUSE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: WREXON FARMHOUSE

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Pitminster
National Grid Reference:: ST2016720309

Details

ST22SW 6/88

PITMINSTER CP Wrexon Farmhouse

II

Possibly longhouse, now dwelling. C16, south gable end extended or rebuilt C17-C18 when converted to domestic use, C18 alterations north end, refenestrated late C19-early C20. Roughcast over cob with sections rebuilt in rubble, slate roof, roughcast stacks. Plan: 4-cell and cross passage, suggested longhouse with byre end rebuilt, or extended 3-cell and cross passage farmhouse. Two storeys, 5 bays, plinth to 4-bays left, wall breaks forward end bay right, central bays partly rebuilt, 2 and 3-light casements except for small glazed opening above gabled entrance porch. Rear elevation pronounced recesses in wall adjoining rear entrance to cross passage, 3-light octagonal mullioned window. Interior: cob cross passage wall right rising through roof, beyond right inserted C18 brick fireplace, chamfered lintel to cross passage fireplace, blocked oven against facade wall, peaked doorframe, winder stair against rear wall, 4-panel steeply chamfered compartment ceiling, stud and plank screen with entrance resited; one jointed cruck truss visible above stud and plank screen, with numerous changes of floor level on upper floor, not yet satisfactory explained. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, April 1982).

Listing NGR: ST2016720309

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Legacy System number:: 271039
Legacy System:: LBS

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'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in April, (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.