Barn on South Side of Foldyard at Orchard Portman Farm
BARN ON SOUTH SIDE OF FOLDYARD AT ORCHARD PORTMAN FARM
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060392
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Barn on South Side of Foldyard at Orchard Portman Farm
- Statutory Address:
- BARN ON SOUTH SIDE OF FOLDYARD AT ORCHARD PORTMAN FARM
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060392
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Barn on South Side of Foldyard at Orchard Portman Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARN ON SOUTH SIDE OF FOLDYARD AT ORCHARD PORTMAN FARM
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:
- BARN ON SOUTH SIDE OF FOLDYARD AT ORCHARD PORTMAN FARM
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Orchard Portman
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 24559 21340
Details
ORCHARD PORTMAN CP ST22SW ORCHARD PORTMAN VILLAGE
4/157 Barn on south side of foldyard at Orchard Portman Farm -
GV II
Semi-detached barn adjoining range of farmbuildings at west end (not included in this list). Early-mid C18, reroofed mid C19, minor alterations late C20. Red brick, English bond, plinth, slate roof, porch gabled roof altered to mansard. Plan: barn with porch facing north onto foldyard, roof continued west to farm covered way linking mid C19 range of buildings (not included). Ten or 11 bays, central 2-storey porch with square headed opening, square headed doorways end bay right and to left of porch, diaper pattern ventilation holes with long ventilation slits below on facade, loft opening west gable end, 2 tall stepped brick buttresses, co-eval with building, on rear elevation. Interior: largely obscured by machinery, king-post roof. All that remains of the earlier Orchard Portman far. which was demolished and rebuilt mid C19 when Orchard Portman House itself was razed to the ground. Although slightly altered, a good example of an C18 brick barn.
Listing NGR: ST2455921340
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 270880
- 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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