Frith Farmhouse,and Bakehouse at South East
FRITH FARMHOUSE,AND BAKEHOUSE AT SOUTH EAST, FRITH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1128768
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Frith Farmhouse,and Bakehouse at South East
- Statutory Address:
- FRITH FARMHOUSE,AND BAKEHOUSE AT SOUTH EAST, FRITH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1128768
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Frith Farmhouse,and Bakehouse at South East
- Statutory Address 1:
- FRITH FARMHOUSE,AND BAKEHOUSE AT SOUTH EAST, FRITH LANE
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:
- FRITH FARMHOUSE,AND BAKEHOUSE AT SOUTH EAST, FRITH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wickwar
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 71782 87361
Details
ST 78 NW YATE FRITH LANE (north side)
4/239 Frith Farmhouse, and Bakehouse 17.9.52 at south east - II*
Farmhouse. Late C17, possibly incorporating an earlier building. Rubble; plain tiled roof; rubble stacks. L-plan, with entry direct into the central hall. 2 storeys, cellar and attics in stone gables. 2:3 (in projecting, canted 2 storey and attic porch with hipped roof): 2 bays; C19 marginal glazing bar sash windows and C20 casement windows, which resemble sashes; most under cornice. Cross windows to west gable. Central C20 door. Single storey rubble bakehouse projects at right (south east). Interior: hall, parlour and dairy fireplaces are constructed of neatly coursed rubble and are segmental on plan; stop chamfered beams; doors and hall have bolection moulded surrounds, passage and dairy doors have ovolo moulded surrounds; very fine dog-leg staircase with panelled newel posts, twisted balusters, carved pendants and finials; first floor, C17 panelling from the hall forms a passage, chamfered door frames; attic, reused members and extended collar beam trusses; decorative panel of rose and 4 fleur-de-lys within a lozenge on stack. A very good, although somewhat altered, example of a high class gabled vernacular/gentry house, built for a surgeon who never occupied the property. (Hall, L, Rural Houses of North Avon and South Gloucestershire, 1983).
Listing NGR: ST7178287361
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 34873
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hall, L, City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery Monograph Number 6 in The Rural Houses of North Avon and South Gloucestershire 1400-1720, (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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