BIRD'S FARMHOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1060416
Date first listed:: 10-Aug-1983
List Entry Name:: BIRD'S FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: BIRD'S FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1060416
Date first listed:: 10-Aug-1983
List Entry Name:: BIRD'S FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BIRD'S 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:: BIRD'S FARMHOUSE

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: North Curry
National Grid Reference:: ST 29759 25551

Details

NORTH CURRY CP ST22NE KNAPP

1/53 Bird's Farmhouse

10.8.83 - II

Farmhouse. C16, incorporating part of medieval hall house, enlarged one room north C18, altered subsequently, undergoing restoration and enlargement one room south-west at time of survey (December 1984). Some cob and rubble rendered, tile hung first floor south front, hipped roofs left to original block and to C20 addition, triple Roman tiles, external brick stack right gable end, centre of east front and at north end. Irregular T-plan, lying north-south, earlier part L-plan extended north, C20 addition south-west. South front: 2 storeys, 1:2 bays; C20 addition left set back, all C20 windows, right angular dormer oriel, ground floor one window left in addition, 2 to right of porch, right return wing of 2 bays with outshot. Interior not seen, said to contain in right hand room of south front steeply chamfered 6-panel compartment ceiling pointed arch door frame giving access to rear 2-cell wing, centre fine moulded 6-panel compartment ceiling with unusual arrangement of moulded wooden lintel to fireplace set on moulded timber side posts with a moulded shelf above, base of a cruck post in east wall and fine moulded 4-centred arch door frame to right of fireplace. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, January 1981).

Listing NGR: ST2975925551

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Legacy System number:: 270837
Legacy System:: LBS

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'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in January, (1981)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.