Darvole Farm House
DARVOLE FARM HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1176487
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Darvole Farm House
- Statutory Address:
- DARVOLE FARM HOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1176487
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Darvole Farm House
- Statutory Address 1:
- DARVOLE FARM HOUSE
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:
- DARVOLE FARM HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- East Coker
- National Grid Reference:
- ST5562612475
Details
ST51SE EAST COKER CP
DARVOLE
5/90 Darvole Farm House
19.4.61
- II*
Farmhouse. Late C16. Local stone rubble with Ham stone dressings, the South face being rendered; thatched roof with
plain verges; brick end chimney stacks. 2-storeys with attic and C16 outshuts to North. 3-bay South elevation. Hollow
chamfer mullioned windows with large rectangular leaded panes, under continuous label to ground floor and with separate
labels above, the lower windows of 5-light and upper of 4-lights; central camber-arched doorway under very deep lintel:
2 half-height buttresses each end, not bonded in. Thatched 2-storey outbuilding to West with plain opening to ground
floor and worn stone steps to first floor. East gable of house has 2 eaves-height offset buttresses, timber casement
to ground floor, 2-light mullioned window at first floor and 3-light to attic. 3-light mullioned windows to North
elevation, one of which bears legend 'Milk House' - relic of Window Tax Exemption. Interior not accessible, but layout
seems little changed, some chamfered beams survive but modern fireplaces installed. (M Barley, The English Farmhouse
and Cottage, page 262, 1961; VAG Report, unpublished SRO, 1972).
Listing NGR: ST5562612475
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263648
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Barley, M W, The English Farmhouse and Cottage, (1961), 262
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, (1972)
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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