Horton House
HORTON HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1174810
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- Statutory Address:
- HORTON HOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1174810
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- Statutory Address 1:
- HORTON HOUSE
Location
- Statutory Address:
- HORTON HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Horton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 32521 15074
Details
HORTON CP - ST31NW 2/52 Horton House 4.2.58
GV II
the entry shall be amended to read:-
ST31NW HORTON CP -
2/52 Horton House
-
GV II
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HORTON CP - ST31NW 2/52 Horton House 4.2.58
GV II
(Higher Horton Farmhouse on OS map; also known as The Firs). Detached farmhouse. Possibly C15, much modified c1900. Ham stone and local stone roughly cut and squared, some ashlar; Welsh slate roof between stepped coped gables; brick and stone chimney stacks. Two storeys, 4-bay south elevation, with projecting 2-storey porch to bay 3. Pairs of sash windows with 4-pane upper casements and plain below, in lias stone surrounds with voussoired and keystoned flat arches; projecting porch has angled corner buttresses, eaves string with gargoyles and battlemented parapet, near-triangular moulded outer arch with attached shafts, no label, and above a 3-light hollow-chamfered mullioned window in hollow recess without label; to left of porch a projecting chimney stack with gabled top; similar projecting stack to west gable; to right of porch a slight projection for circular staircase, with 2-unit upper stairlight. C19/C20 extension to rear. Interior not seen, but reported is a cross passage 3-room plan, with chamfered beams to east room which has a modified gable fireplace with possible smoke bay; centre room has 9-panel ceiling with moulded beams, west room a 4 x 4 panelled ceiling with reused C15 doorway; some arch-braced collar trusses to roof, some resting on shield corbels, two tiers of windbraces removed. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, June 1982).
Listing NGR: ST3251815075
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263943
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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Vernacular Architecture Group Report in June, (1982)
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