BRATTON COURT

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1174996
Date first listed:: 22-May-1969
List Entry Name:: BRATTON COURT
Statutory Address:: BRATTON COURT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1174996
Date first listed:: 22-May-1969
List Entry Name:: BRATTON COURT
Statutory Address 1:: BRATTON COURT

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BRATTON COURT

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Minehead Without
National Park:: EXMOOR
National Grid Reference:: SS 94603 46291

Details

SS94NW MINEHEAD WITHOUT CP BRATTON

2/82 Bratton Court

22.5.69

GV I

Manor house, now farmhouse divided into 2 dwellings. C14 open hall, C15 solar hall, ceiled and enlarged C17, extensively altered late C19-early C20. Rendered over rubble, slate roofs, coped verges, large lateral stack to left of entrance, stone stack second bay right. T-plan, open hall house ceiled to 3 cell and cross passage lying north-south, solar wing set at right angles to east, extended west. Main block; 2 storeys, all C19 3-light casements, one window bay left of lateral stack, abutting gabled full height projection with one window, 2 window bays to right of entrance, 6-panelled raised and fielded door, rustic wooden porch. Set at right angles left solar wing, gable end masked by linhay (qv) on north front re-entrant angle, irregularly placed fenestration, first floor left 2-light trefoil headed mullioned window, pierced spandrels with foliage design visible on interior, lower mullions restored, C19 window right with cusped head, similar 2-light to right, ground floor left mullioned and transomed trefoil headed window similar end bay right. Rear elevation lateral stack with slate roofed bread oven projection, to left wing with 2-light ovolo moulded mullioned window, 2 stone stacks rising from eaves. Interior: main block extensively altered, remains of aisle post in wall to right of entrance, chamfered on one side and forming jamb of chamfered door frame to service end, now much altered. Unusual octagonal aisle post with splayed plinth, impost and 4 curved braces at south end, upper storey not seen, said to contain 7 pairs of arch braced collar beam trusses, smaoke blackened in roof space. Solar wing, ground floor featureless, first floor 3 pairs of jointed cruck trusses one fully arch braced with cusped wind braces, chamfered pointed arch opening in east gable end, unidentified opening to left, chamfered lintel to fireplace; previously known as the chapel, but in fact the solar. (Photographs in NMR; VAG Report, unpublished SRO, parch 1978).

Listing NGR: SS9460346291

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 265365
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in March, (1978)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.