WESTLEIGH FARMHOUSE INCLUDING OUTBUILDING AND WELL HEAD IMMEDIATELY NORTH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1096037
Date first listed:: 18-Jul-2003
List Entry Name:: WESTLEIGH FARMHOUSE INCLUDING OUTBUILDING AND WELL HEAD IMMEDIATELY NORTH
Statutory Address:: WESTLEIGH FARMHOUSE INCLUDING OUTBUILDING AND WELL HEAD IMMEDIATELY NORTH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1096037
Date first listed:: 18-Jul-2003
List Entry Name:: WESTLEIGH FARMHOUSE INCLUDING OUTBUILDING AND WELL HEAD IMMEDIATELY NORTH
Statutory Address 1:: WESTLEIGH FARMHOUSE INCLUDING OUTBUILDING AND WELL HEAD IMMEDIATELY NORTH

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:: WESTLEIGH FARMHOUSE INCLUDING OUTBUILDING AND WELL HEAD IMMEDIATELY NORTH

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 12036 30478

Details

LYDEARD ST LAWRENCE

189/0/10016 WEST LEIGH 18-JUL-03 Westleigh Farmhouse including outbuild ing and well-head immediately north

II Farmhouse, outbuilding and well-head. C18; remodelled circa early C19; probably a reconstruction of an earlier house. Stone rubble with red brick dressings. Two-span slate roof with stone coped gable ends. Brick gable-end stacks. PLAN: Double-depth plan with kitchen to left and parlour to right, central entrance passage to stair hall behind parlour and with service rooms at the back; a range at the left [west] end has a large fireplace with a re-set C17 bressumer. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Almost symmetrical 3-bay south front with C19 16-pane sashes with cambered brick arches and brick jambs; central doorway with brick round arch, semi-circular traceried fanlight and flush-panel door. East side has large round-headed stair window with sash complete with glazing bars. At rear north C19 casements and sashes with glazing bars. Doorway on west side of main range with fielded panel and glazed door. Lower west range has wide doorway on south front with studded plank door. INTERIOR is exceptionally intact and complete with most of its original features, such as C18/19 joinery, including fielded-panel doors, architraves, dado rails, chimneypieces, cupboards, staircases, screens and grilles. Kitchen has large fireplace with moulded chimneypiece and shelf and cupboard to left with panelled doors and drawers. Parlour has dado rail, Victorian chimneypiece and fine pair of china cupboards with shaped shelves, panelled and glazed doors and broad key-motif frieze to its architrave. Hall has panelled door to service end with Chinoisserie panel and grille over. Dairy has stone shelves. Main open-well open-string stairs with stick balusters, column newels and ramped moulded handrail. Bedchambers, some with chimneypieces, one with Georgian iron grate and cupboards with drawers below. Panelled door with grille over to attic stairs which has column newels and stick balusters. Main range 7-bay tenoned purlin roof with queen-post trusses with angle-struts,; king-post trusses at east end; two tiers of tenoned purlins and common-rafters intact. Large former kitchen in range at west end with chamfered cross-beams with hollow step-stops at one end and a large fireplace with re-set early C17 moulded timber bressumer, oven and boiler to left; loft floor above open to roof. Stone flag floors throughout much of ground floor. INCLUDING, at rear north, stone domed well-head and circa late C18 or early C19 small stone outbuilding with corrugated-iron sheet roof with gabled ends, and on south front central doorway and flanking windows with iron bars and with re-set C17 chamfered timber 2-light window above; tenoned-purlin roof structure, complete with common-rafters and battens. Westleigh Farmhouse is a remarkable survival of a farmhouse, virtually unaltered since the C19 and complete with most of the original internal joinery and other features.

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Legacy System number:: 489929
Legacy System:: LBS

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