Green Farmhouse

GREEN FARMHOUSE, THE GREEN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1136963
Date first listed:
05-Dec-1984
List Entry Name:
Green Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
GREEN FARMHOUSE, THE GREEN
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1136963
Date first listed:
05-Dec-1984
List Entry Name:
Green Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
GREEN FARMHOUSE, THE GREEN

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
GREEN FARMHOUSE, THE GREEN

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 60076 86823

Details

ST 68 NW OLVESTON THE GREEN (south side) Olveston

8/186 Green Farmhouse

- II

Farmhouse, now house. C15 origin with later alterations and additions. Rubble, pantiled roof with brick gable stacks. L-plan, former open hall house. 2 storeys and 3 windows, all 2 and 3-light casements with leaded lights except 1st floor 2nd from left, unglazed window with wooden mullions, square set and chamfered with step stops and timber lintel, ground floor windows have timber lintels, 3rd bay from left has C20 gabled porch, slits to each side and plank door in wooden frame, timbers in wall above 2nd window from left and to right at ground floor, single storey wing to left has 4-light casement with timber lintel; west elevation has 2-light casement with timber lintel at 1st floor left, all other windows C20, 2 storey wing to right. Rear has central dormer extension, 3-light casement at ground and 1st floor right, door and 2 C20 windows, east side of rear wing has door with timber lintel, 4-light casement at ground floor and 3-light at 1st floor. Interior: chamfered and stopped beams and fireplace lintel, blocked fireplace in west room has large stone lintel, door to former hall from kitchen has cut back frame on one side for passage of barrels; roof smoke-blackened at west end, 5 collar-beam trusses, 2 and 4 having cambered collars, central truss has arch-braced collar, 2 pairs of butt purlins, in 2 central bays 2 tiers of windbraces, diagonal ridge. Rear kitchen wing probably added late C17/early C18. (Sources: Hall, Linda : Rural Houses of North Avon and South Gloucestershire, 1400-1720. 1983).

Listing NGR: ST6007686823

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
35295
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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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