Greenham Barton

Greenham Barton, Greenham, Wellington, TA21 0JW

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1176225
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1956
List Entry Name:: Greenham Barton
Statutory Address:: Greenham Barton, Greenham, Wellington, TA21 0JW

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1176225
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1956
List Entry Name:: Greenham Barton
Statutory Address 1:: Greenham Barton, Greenham, Wellington, TA21 0JW

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Greenham Barton, Greenham, Wellington, TA21 0JW

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Stawley
National Grid Reference:: ST 08156 20047

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 06/03/2019

ST02SE 6/28

STAWLEY CP GREENHAM Greenham Barton

25.1.56

GV I House. Early C15, C16 and early C20 alterations. Red sandstone random rubble with Ham stone dressings, stone slate roof, stone stacks. L-shaped plan long block of hall and porch facing south west with service wing north west.

Two storeys, 2:1:2:1 bays; pair of mullioned and transomed ten-light Tudor headed windows to right of porch, four-light mullioned window outer bay right, two pairs of two-light mullioned windows to left of porch, two-light cinquefoil with hood mould, in first floor of porch; the latter is crenellated with stepped diagonal buttresses, four-centred arch with convex mouldings. Circular staircase turret with moulded parapet outer bay right, early C20 addition.

Interior: remains in screens passage possibly of aisle truss post, imported stud and plank screen, unusual stair turret between screen and fireplace in Great Hall originally giving access to gallery above passage. Great Hall open to eaves with Elizabethan-style plaster work by Smallcorn of Bath, early C20, similar in solar and inner room, four-centred arch fireplace moulded with reverse ogees. Pointed arched doorway to service wing, originally detached kitchen block. Round headed gateway north east site of courtyard, which originally also contained a detached chapel and lodgings.

Listing NGR: ST0815620047

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 270103
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Country Life' in 9 September, (1933), 252-7
'Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society' in Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, , Vol. 80, (1934), 17-24
'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, , Vol. Unpublished (SRO), (November 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.