Clay Castle Farmhouse
CLAY CASTLE FARMHOUSE, CLAY CASTLE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175059
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Clay Castle Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CLAY CASTLE FARMHOUSE, CLAY CASTLE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175059
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Clay Castle Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLAY CASTLE FARMHOUSE, CLAY CASTLE
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:
- CLAY CASTLE FARMHOUSE, CLAY CASTLE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Haselbury Plucknett
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 47435 10710
Details
ST4710 HASELBURY PLUCKNETT CP CLAY CASTLE (North side)
10/23 Clay Castle Farmhouse (formerly listed as Claycastle Farmhouse) 19.4.61 II
Detached farmhouse. Late C15/early C16, modified late C16 and subsequently. Ham stone coursed rubble, ashlar dressings; thatched roof with coped west gable, plain to east; brick end chimney stacks. Two storeys, 4 bays. Hollow-chamfered mullioned windows in chamfered recesses, of 4-door-2-4-light to ground floor, and of 3, 2, blank and 3-lights to first floor, not all to same detail, e.g. lower bay 4 has unworked top mitres, lower windows with labels; to upper bay 3 a blocked oculus window, and small late C19 casement window left of lower bay 1: in lower bay 2 a C20 door in adapted heavy frame, set in C20 timber porch. Timber lean-to garage against west gable, and lean-to extension at rear. Interior not seen, but reported are a cross-passage, a 4-panel beamed ceiling, and in roof at least 2 jointed-cruck trusses. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, January 1973).
Listing NGR: ST4743510710
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262272
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in January, (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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