Virgins Living

VIRGINS LIVING

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1176877
Date first listed:
19-Apr-1961
Statutory Address:
VIRGINS LIVING

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Date:
2005-05-18
Reference:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1176877
Date first listed:
19-Apr-1961
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Aug-1984
Statutory Address 1:
VIRGINS LIVING

Location

Statutory Address:
VIRGINS LIVING

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

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
West and Middle Chinnock
National Grid Reference:
ST4725613275

Details

WEST CHINNOCK CP
ST41SE MIDDLE CHINNOCK

3/198 Virgins Living
(formerly listed as Hillside View)
19.4.61
- II

Farmhouse. Early C17. Ham stone and squared, ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof between coped gables; brick end
chimney stacks. Through passage severely modified in 1962. 2-storey, 4-bay South front (North front now altered to
form entrance facade). Hollow chamfered mullioned windows with labels and unworked upper angle mitres, of 2-light
bay-1, 4-light bay-2, 3-light bay-4, ground floor; C20 french doors under new label bay 3; above steel casements bays 1
and 2 have small pane cast iron casements in wood frames with narrow centre deadlight, these last repeated on North
elevation. East gable has 2 mullioned windows, one with label, also small C17 stair window; gable shows evidence of
raising. Flat roofed extension to North is remnant of earlier wing; on West side of same a lead pump dated 1856 still
in position. Inside good C17 fireplace, cambered arch, incised spandrils on East wall. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO,
1972).


Listing NGR: ST4725613275

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263756
Legacy System:
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Vernacular Architecture Group Report in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, (1972)

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