Brook Farm House

BROOK FARM HOUSE, NORTH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1175097
Date first listed:
19-Apr-1961
List Entry Name:
Brook Farm House
Statutory Address:
BROOK FARM HOUSE, NORTH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1175097
Date first listed:
19-Apr-1961
List Entry Name:
Brook Farm House
Statutory Address 1:
BROOK FARM HOUSE, NORTH STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BROOK FARM HOUSE, NORTH STREET

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 47236 11003

Details

ST4710 HASELBURY PLUCKNETT CP NORTH STREET (East side) ST41SE

10/29 Brook Farm House 3/29

19.4.61 GV II

Detached farmhouse. C16, but modified, especially in C19. Ham stone rear-ashlar; double Roman concrete tiles to steep pitch between stepped coped gables replacing thatch; brick and chimney stacks. Two storeys, 4 bays. Horizontal-bar casement windows with gauged stone flat arches to lower windows; upper bay 2 is 2-light, the remainder 3-light: to ground floor bay 2 a six-panel door in deep timber-panelled reveal in Regency style, with outer timber architrave. Two-storey extension to south gable, set lower, with 3-light casement below and 3-light above, and plain gabled roof: north gable plain. Interior not seen, but reported is a through-passage 3-room plan, of which the hall has a complex ceiling of deep moulded beams, 30-panelled, and the parlour has a similar 24-panel ceiling: stud and plank partitioning on ground floor: stair external to main building: roof frame partly replaced, but north section has at least one jointed cruck, enclosed ridge, chamfered purlins and traces of windbraces: modern roof set above the old. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, January 1973).

Listing NGR: ST4723611003

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Legacy System number:
262278
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

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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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