Sheepcombe Farmhouse
SHEEPCOMBE FARMHOUSE, WASHINGPOOL HILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1128949
- Date first listed:
- 05-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Sheepcombe Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SHEEPCOMBE FARMHOUSE, WASHINGPOOL HILL ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-09-07
- Reference:
- IOE01/04014/08
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1128949
- Date first listed:
- 05-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Sheepcombe Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHEEPCOMBE FARMHOUSE, WASHINGPOOL HILL ROAD
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:
- SHEEPCOMBE FARMHOUSE, WASHINGPOOL HILL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Olveston
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 61697 86813
Details
ST 68 NW OLVESTON WASHINGPOOL HILL ROAD (north side) 8/227 Sheepcombe Farmhouse
- II
Farmhouse, now house. Mid C17, late C17 additions to rear with C18 and C19 alterations. Rubble, rendered, treble Roman tiled roof, gable stacks with brick diagonal chimneys, double Roman tiled rear wing. U-plan, symmetrical front. 2½ storeys, 7 windows, all sashes in plain reveals, central 4-panelled door with lower section unpanelled, 3 gables, each with 9-pane fixed light, single storey C20 wing to right. West elevation of 2½ storeys and 3 windows (including rear wing), 2 blocked at ground floor, two 6-light casements to 1st floor left, one window blocked in brick to 1st floor right, central gable has 2-light casement with timber lintel, stack to left with diagonal chimneys; east elevation has blank gable end and rear wing containing former dairy and wash- house of 2 storeys and 6 windows, canted bay through 2 storeys to left, varied windows, 2 passage entries, with flat head to left and round-headed to right. Rear has varied windows, including one 8-light casement to 1st floor of east wing, with loop catch and leaded lights, square moulded mullions outside, ovolo- moulded inside; blocked opening to ground floor left, and door, both with timber lintel. Interior: not accessible. Comprehensive restoration in progress at time of survey, (July 1984) (Sources: Hall, Linda : Rural Houses of North Avon and South Gloucestershire 1400-1720. 1983).
Listing NGR: ST6169786813
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 35332
- 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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