East Lydeard Farmhouse
EAST LYDEARD FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175348
- Date first listed:
- 04-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- East Lydeard Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- EAST LYDEARD FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175348
- Date first listed:
- 04-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- East Lydeard Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- EAST LYDEARD FARMHOUSE
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:
- EAST LYDEARD FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishop's Lydeard
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 17917 29754
Details
ST12NE BISHOP'S LYDEARD CP EAST LYDEARD 7/55 East Lydeard Farmhouse -
- II
Farmhouse. C16-C17, altered and enlarged 1919. Rendered over random rubble, slate roofs with change in level either side of gabled slightly projecting cross wing with rendered stacks to right and in right gable end, brick to left and in left gable end; gabled wing and left return have bargeboards. Plan: 3 cell and cross passage (facing West) to right, one room early C20 addition to left. 2-storeys, 1:1:2 bays; 2- and 3-light early C20 casements, with long, many paned casements in 3 ground floor windows of original block, a flight of 3 steps approaches the casement in the gabled cross wing. Early C20 plank doors to left of cross window and centre right, latter with slate roofed pentice porch on wooden brackets (original cross passage entrance). Left return gable end carries plaque CM (Charles Morris) 1919, right return buttressed. Interior: plank and muntin screen to right of cross passage with blocked 4 centred arch opening (plastered over on cross passage side), chamfered beams with enriched stops, fireplace against left cross passage wall with 4 panel hollow chamfered compartment ceiling, stair turret at rear. Plank and muntin screen at East end of cross wing room, reset perhaps, with adapted 4 panel chamfered beam ceiling, North wall seems to have been rebuilt. Jointed cruck, and lath and plaster screens visible upstairs. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, February 1981).
Listing NGR: ST1791729754
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 270266
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in February, (1981)
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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