Butcombe Farmhouse
BUTCOMBE FARMHOUSE, ALDWICK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1129229
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Butcombe Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BUTCOMBE FARMHOUSE, ALDWICK LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1129229
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Butcombe Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUTCOMBE FARMHOUSE, ALDWICK 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:
- BUTCOMBE FARMHOUSE, ALDWICK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Butcombe
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 50362 60816
Details
ST 56 SW BUTCOMBE C.P. ALDWICK LANE (north side)
6/58 Butcombe Farmhouse 12.12.84 II*
Farmhouse. Possible C15 core with C16 and C17 alterations and additions. Roughcast to south front, coursed rubble with large square rusticated flush quoins to rear. Stone copings, pantile roofs. L shaped plan with cross passage. Irregular garden front of 3 separate elements: central section with hall and passage, right hand addition at right angles with grand solar and further addition to left hand containing parlour. 2 storeys. Left hand section of 2 windows, those to the ground floor under segmental heads all with large pane C19 casements. Central section of 2 windows with similar fenestration. Right hand wing also with similar fenestration but in addition a small ogee-headed window below the eaves to light a stair turret. Round-headed studded plank door to left hand in centre section. Further C19 door with marginal glazing and flat hood on carved brackets to right hand wing and on the east wall, another ogee-headed light to garderobe projection. Steeply gabled roofs with 3 ridge stacks. Rear C17 service wing. Interior. 2 oak framed doorways between lobby and parlour, possibly C15. Studded plank door to passage. Large inglenook in hall and chamfered cross beams. Moulded stone architrave to solar doorway with studded plank door, similar door with Tudor arch to newel stair in solar, also 6 panel compartmented ceiling and Tudor arched fireplace. (Unpublished VAG report by E.H.D. Williams, February 1985).
Listing NGR: ST5036260816
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 33926
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Williams, E H D, Report of the Somerset Vernacular Architecture Group in Report of the Somerset Vernacular Architecture Group, ()
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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