Lower Coombsend Farmhouse
LOWER COOMBSEND FARMHOUSE, CHAPEL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129258
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Coombsend Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER COOMBSEND FARMHOUSE, CHAPEL LANE
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- Date:
- 2002-09-08
- Reference:
- IOE01/08594/27
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129258
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Coombsend Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER COOMBSEND FARMHOUSE, CHAPEL 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:
- LOWER COOMBSEND FARMHOUSE, CHAPEL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sodbury
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 75346 80567
Details
ST 78 SE SODBURY CHAPEL LANE 2/42 COOMB'S END 17.9.52 Lower Coombsend Farmhouse
II
Late mediaeval origins, altered in 1654 and recently restored. Rubble. Double Roman tiled roof. Large central ashlar stack (renewed). Two storeys and attics in 2 gables with coped verges and finials. Three windows, 2-, 3- and 4-light casements with hollow chamfered stone mullions under dripmoulds with returns; all under irregular relieving arches. (4-light ground floor windows are modern).
Two storey gabled projecting porch (originally a service and staircase rear wing); 2-light mullioned, casement window under dripmould with returns and moulded doorcase with depressed 4-centred arch carved into lintel (originally a fireplace from the first floor).
Interior: remains of 4 arch-braced collar trusses. Number of chamfered and ovolo moulded beams with run-out or notch stops.
Ground floor east room; a fireplace with chamfered stone jambs. West room has ashlar surround with double ogee moulding and 5-centred flat arch; above are initials and date G.1654.R
See also:
L. Hall Rural Houses of NorthAvon and South Gloucestershire.
R.C.H.M. Unpublished report.
Listing NGR: ST7534680567
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 34089
- 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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