Lower Tarr Farmhouse
LOWER TARR FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060574
- Date first listed:
- 04-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Tarr Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER TARR FARMHOUSE
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- Date:
- 2004-06-08
- Reference:
- IOE01/12478/30
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060574
- Date first listed:
- 04-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Tarr Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER TARR 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:
- LOWER TARR FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lydeard St. Lawrence
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 10748 30575
Details
ST13SW LYDEARD ST LAWRENCE CP
2/189 Lower Tarr Farmhouse
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GV II
Farmhouse. C16, extended C17, dated 1691. Red sandstone random rubble partially rendered, slate roofs, stone stack right gabled with full height curing chamber projection on right return, brick stacks left of entrance and next bay left marking extent or original block. 2 cell and cross passage extended one bay South with wings added North and South sides. Two storeys, irregular fenestration, first floor left blocked window, leaded casement and right remains of 4-light ovolo moulded mullion with leaded casement. Ground floor leaded casement to right of C20 glazed door, wooden trellis porch on rendered brick, left tripartite sash with French window in outer bay right. Interior not viewed, said to contain jointed cruck trusses, chamfered beams with stops, plasterwork in first floor North wing, panel dated 1691 with coat of arms indistinct beneath later plaster, plasterwork also in room over hall. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, November 1974).
Listing NGR: ST1074830575
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 270400
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in November, (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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