Lodge Farmhouse
LODGE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1060491
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Lodge Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LODGE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1060491
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Lodge Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LODGE FARMHOUSE
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:
- LODGE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Durston
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 29092 28178
Details
ST22NE DURSTON CP DURSTON VILLAGE 6/95 Lodge Farmhouse 25.2.55
GV II*
Farmhouse, possibly ecclesiastical residence. C15, altered C16 and mid Cl9. Lias random rubble and Ham stone dressings, slate roof, coped verges, kneelers, large external C19 stack with octagonal chimney on left return of porch, another external stack on crosswing left and right gable end and centre right. Plan: open hall with solar over service end, now 3-cell and cross passage with full height porch. One and half storeys, 1:1:2 bays gable fronted end bay left, gabled full height porch and two gabled dormers right, Perpendicular cinquefoil headed 2-light mullioned and transomed window left, trefoil headed 2-light window to porch both with cavetto moulded mullions, C19 stone mullions right, ground floor C19 4-light square headed mullioned and transept window left moulded 4-centred arch openings to porch and 2 bays right, latter filled with C19 3-light casements and entrance with square headed door, light above. Interior: altered mid C19 but said to contain original C15 smoke blackened wagon roof composed of 31 trusses set less than 250m apart with every fifth truss chamfered. This is reputed to be the only known stoke blackened wagon roof in Somerset. It is thought that the building was connected with the Preceptory and Priory of Buckland sited at Lower Durston, dissolved at the Reformation. (VAB Report, unpublished SRO, March 1983).
Listing NGR: ST2909228178
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 270606
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in March, (1983)
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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