Combe Farmhouse
COMBE FARMHOUSE, COMBE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175278
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Combe Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- COMBE FARMHOUSE, COMBE LANE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/13475/02
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175278
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Combe Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- COMBE FARMHOUSE, COMBE LANE
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:
- COMBE FARMHOUSE, COMBE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Withycombe
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 00822 40660
Details
ST04SW WITHYCOMBE CP COMBE LANE (North side)
8/108 Combe Farmhouse
22.5.69
- II
Farmhouse, Dated 1629, extended subsequently, kitchen end largely rebuilt and reroofed mid C19. Roughcast, colourwashed rubble kitchen end, slate roofs, lower independently roofed, hipped clay tiled, recessed kitchen wing, rendered stack left gable end, large lateral stack with slate roofed bread oven projection right of entrance. Plan: 3 cell and cross passage, dairy attached to stair turret on south front; south west addition. North front: 2 storeys, 2 bays; first floor left central section of wall raised to include two 2-light leaded casements, right in lower roofed block 2 casements set below eaves to left of lateral stack, ground floor one 4-light casement left, small glazed opening end bay right, half-glazed plank door in second bay right. Rear elevation south east corner of stair turret first floor 2-light ovolo moulded window, ground floor tiny wooden lancet blocked internally. Interior: east gable end fireplace plasterwork overmantol with cartouche dated 1629 with initials GB:AB:IB:DB below flanked by strap work, figures and drops of fruit, upper portion missing; central room has lateral beam steeply chamfered with step and runout stops, modern grate, peaked head door frame to winder stair with newel post, bedroom opening off stair above dairy, principal rafter roof. The kitchen end with similar roof seems to have been rebuilt.
Listing NGR: ST0082240660
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265391
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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