FARTHINGS AND ABUTTING WALL FRONTING ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1060465
Date first listed:: 17-May-1985
List Entry Name:: FARTHINGS AND ABUTTING WALL FRONTING ROAD
Statutory Address:: FARTHINGS AND ABUTTING WALL FRONTING ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1060465
Date first listed:: 17-May-1985
List Entry Name:: FARTHINGS AND ABUTTING WALL FRONTING ROAD
Statutory Address 1:: FARTHINGS AND ABUTTING WALL FRONTING ROAD

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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Location

Statutory Address:: FARTHINGS AND ABUTTING WALL FRONTING ROAD

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Norton Fitzwarren
National Grid Reference:: ST 20039 27022

Details

ST22NW NORTON FlTZWARREN CP LANGFORD

5/144 Farthings and abutting wall fronting road

GV II

Farmhouse, now dwelling. Late medieval, ceiled late C16-early C17, gable ends thought to have been rebuilt, restored late C20. Rendered over cob and rubble, double Roman tiled roof, overhanging eaves with soffit board on North front, large external lateral stack on South front, brick stack rising below West gable end, right return. L-plan, open hall ceiled to 3 cell and cross passage with agricultural wing adjoing West gable end fronting road. North front: 2 storeys, all C20 leaded windows, 2-light casement first floor right, ground floor 2-light mullioned and transomed window left of entrance with remains of 4-light cinquefoil headed mullion above, large pointed arch chamfered doorframe, C19 plank floor, raking buttress left and on left return. Long right wing fronting onto road continued for about 6, is rendered cob wall about 2m high, Rear elevation, depressed 4-centre arched chamferd doorframe to cross passage. Interior not sighted: said to contain remains of stud and-panel screen with central square headed entrance to hall, which with parlour said to contain unusual arrangement of ceiling beams, 3 pairs of framed jointed cruck trusses with evidence of smoke blackening, unusual framing to truss above kitchen end of cross-passage. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, May 1974).

Listing NGR: ST2003927022

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 270652
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in May, (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.