Longcroft
LONGCROFT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174764
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Longcroft
- Statutory Address:
- LONGCROFT
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174764
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Longcroft
- Statutory Address 1:
- LONGCROFT
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:
- LONGCROFT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Donyatt
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 34714 12977
Details
DONYATT CP SEA ST31SW 4/31 Longcroft (formerly listed in the Civil Parish of Ilminster Without) 2.8.72 GV II
Detached cottage. Possibly C15, with modification in each successive century. Local stone rendered and colourwashed; thatched roof, hipped at east end and half-hipped to west; brick chimney stacks. 'L' plan; single-storey with attics, 8-bay north elevation. Casement windows with horizontal bars, of several types, some with internal ferramenta; bays 3,4 and 8 have 3-light windows, bay 6 is 2-light and bay 7 is 5-light; above, windows between bays 1/2, and to bays 3,4,5 and 7, mostly set into roof; boarded doors bays 1,2 and 5, this last being the main entrance, with an old door in heavy frame. Extending wing on south-west corner, with matching windows and doors in main gable, Interior not seen, but reported are some sections of cob walling, a through passage plan, plank and auntin partitioning of 2 types, a 9-panel beamed ceiling to centre root, 2 massive fireplaces, one with oven and curing or drying chamber, and roof trusses which are mostly jointed crucks, (VAG report, SRO unpublished,June 1973).
Listing NGR: ST3471412977
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263939
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in June, (1973)
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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