Watercombe Farm House
WATERCOMBE FARM HOUSE, WATERCOMBE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173875
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Watercombe Farm House
- Statutory Address:
- WATERCOMBE FARM HOUSE, WATERCOMBE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173875
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Watercombe Farm House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATERCOMBE FARM HOUSE, WATERCOMBE 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:
- WATERCOMBE FARM HOUSE, WATERCOMBE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Yeovil
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 53872 15966
Details
ST51NW YEOVIL CP WATERCOMBE LANE (West side)
1/118 Watercombe Farm House
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- II
House (possibly once divided). Probably C17 late on visible evidence Ham stone, squared in random courses, with ashlar quoins and dressings to openings, concrete double Roman pattern roof tiles possibly on the original frame - one long roof between coped gables; 3-brick stacks with simple capping - the brick stepping remaining on one side stack suggests the roof was formerly thatched. 2-storeys, 5-bays, with 2-modern doorways to ground floor in simple surrounds between three A-light ovolo moulded mullioned windows with label moulds and leaded panes, the left hand being a modern copy: 2 and 3-light windows to first floor, again the left-hand a modern copy. To South side a lean-to (the former cheeseroom) with arched opening and double Roman tiled lean-to roof, now serving as garage. Interior not seen. For a while this house served as the Dairy and Cheese House to Abbey Farm (q.v.): documentary evidence suggests that it may have existed before 1655. (Hall, Sir R. de Z. 'Post Medieval Land Tenure, Preston Plucknett' 1961 SANHS Proceedings Vol. 105).
Listing NGR: ST5387215966
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261457
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society in Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, Vol. 105, (1961)
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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