Fair Garden Farmhouse
FAIR GARDEN FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1175358
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Fair Garden Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- FAIR GARDEN FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1175358
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Fair Garden Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- FAIR GARDEN 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:
- FAIR GARDEN FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wootton Courtenay
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SS9326842131
Details
SS94SW WOOTTON COURTENAY CP -
6/117 Fair Garden Farmhouse
-
- II*
Longhouse. Late C15, ceiled C16, kitchen wing added circa 1600, inner room rebuilt late C17-early C18, restored late
C20. Roughcast over random rubble and cob, rubble exposed at lower end, slate roof, lower end with steeper pitch,
external stone stack west gable end and north gable end with brick cap, brick stack left of cross passage. L-plan on a
slope, store and cattle sheds to left of cross passage at lower end, 2 rooms to right with north kitchen wing addition
and winder stair. South front; 2 storeys, all late C20 wooden casements, wall breaks forward slightly, 3 first floor
windows, end 2 bays unlit first floor, original lower wall height, ground floor 2 windows left of entrance, one right,
2 stable doors to lower end, small window to left of end door, tiny glazed opening to left of cross passage entrance,
plank door, Interior not sighted. Said to contain 3 pairs of jointed cruck trusses centre, with smoke blackening, lower
end trusses rebuilt, and rebuilt pair at parlour end. VAG Report comments: 'the best example yet found of a longhouse
in Somerset". (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, June 1983).
Listing NGR: SS9326842131
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265400
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in June, (1983)
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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