BRIDGE FARMHOUSE

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:: BRIDGE FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

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

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.