Bridge Farmhouse
BRIDGE FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1175640
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGE FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1175640
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDGE FARMHOUSE, HIGH 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.
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:
- BRIDGE FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Butleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- ST5225333642
Details
In the entry for BUTLEIGH HIGH STREET
(east side)
ST 53 SW
Bridge Farmhouse
12/8
22.ll.66
GV II
The entry shall be amended to read:
ST 53 SW BUTLEIGH HIGH STREET
(east side)
12/8 Bridge Farmhouse
22.11.66
GV II*(star)
Farmhouse. C14, walls rebuilt in stone in C18/19 and internally
remodelled in C17; later alterations, especially in mid C19. Lias
rubble, squared and coursed to rear wing; stone-coped pantile roof
with brick gable end stacks to left end rear right wing. L plan with
rear right wing. 2 storeys; 2-winder front range. Timber-tintel
over 8/8-pane sashes to left and 2-light casement with glazing doors
to right of central C19 plank door with a glazed panel, transomelight
and gabled pantile hood on rubble base. C17 three-light ovolo-moulded
wood-mullioned windows to first floor. Right-hand south elevation,
including rear wing, has late C16/C17 three-light hollow-moulded
stone-mullioned windows to rear wing, and blocked archway (?cellar
door) to medieval gable end which has C14 single-light slit windows
above 2 blocked windows. To rear, a porch between rear wing and later
lean-to has reset C14 arched doorway with hollow/step/ogee moulding;
blocked chamfered arched doorway inside porch.
Interior: not inspected but noted as having 4 two-tier cruck-trusses,
all smoke blackened with chamfered arched and wind bracing, yoked apex
and tenoned purlins; windbrace slots to the north truss show that the
roof extended further than the present gable; similar crucks to the
rear wing. Two-centred arched and chamfered, stone doorway to first
floor rear, and piscina to first-floor centre.
Exposed beams and timber framework. Later features include C17 open
fireplaces with chamfered bressumer and C18 china cupboard with fluted
Ionic pilasters. The C14 house had a small room with an upper chamber
to the south (right) divided by a cross passage from a larger room to
the north. A high-stature C14 house, the cruck trusses being of
similar type to the Glastonbury Abbey barns and the C14 barn at
Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire. Significantly Butleigh was part of the
Glastonbury Abbey estate until 1536.
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BUTLEIGH CP HIGH STREET (East side)
ST53SW
12/8 Bridge Farmhouse
22.11.66
GV II
Farmhouse. C16, C17 alterations, further C19 work. Coursed and squared rubble, coped verge, pantile roof, brick stack.
Hall house, later floored with a wing added at the rear; L plan. Two storey, 2-bay road frontage, 3-light ovolo moulded
wooden-mullioned window to left of first floor, similar modified window to right. Virtually flush-mounted 16-pane sash
window to left of ground floor, 2-light casement with glazing bars to right. Central C19 plank door with a glazed
panel, transomlight, gabled pantile hood on a rubble base. Three-light hollow-moulded stone-mullioned windows in wing
to rear; doorway in a moulded stone surround with a 4-centred head. Interior with evidence of an open hall; smoke
blackened open arch-braced two tier cruck roof. (VAG report, unpublished SRO, January 1979).
Listing NGR: ST5225333642
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 267727
- 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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