Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060365
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Aplens
- Statutory Address:
- APLENS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060365
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Aplens
- Statutory Address 1:
- APLENS
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:
- APLENS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stoke St. Mary
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 26586 22410
Details
STOKE ST MARY CP ST22SE STOKE ST MARY VILLAGE 5/126 Aplens (formerly listed as Stoke Court Farmhouse)
25.2.55
GV II
Farmhouse, now dwelling. Possibly late C17 incorporating earlier C16 wing, altered early C19, restored late C20. Roughcast over rubble and cob, thatched roofs, rendered stacks left gable end and to right of entrance, brick stack rising from eaves in kitchen wing. L-plan, site slopes away to east, 3-cell and cross passage facing north, agricultural building abutting west (not included). Two storeys, 1:4 bays, left under catslide of wing 3-light ovolo moulded mullioned window, 3-light steeply chamfered mullioned dormer windows flanking inserted 12-pane stair window below eaves above entrance, remains of similar 3-light dormer right, ground floor left C20 window in wing, 9-pane sash left of plank door, thatched roofed porch, right 3-light steeply chamfered mullioned window. Left return (east front) 3 bays, steep raking buttress and 3-light octagonal mullioned dormer, early C19 3-light leaded iron casement below right, similar steeply chamfered window on west front of wing. Interior not seen, said to contain chamfered beams with scroll stops in main block which has collar and principal roof, large chamfered transverse bead with deep stepped runouts in wing. The agricultural building now converted to a dwelling (Aplens Cottage) abutting west end not included. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, December 1974).
Listing NGR: ST2658622410
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 270915
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in December, (1974)
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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