Orchard Portman Farmhouse
ORCHARD PORTMAN FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176912
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard Portman Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ORCHARD PORTMAN FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176912
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard Portman Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ORCHARD PORTMAN FARMHOUSE
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:
- ORCHARD PORTMAN FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Orchard Portman
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 24533 21391
Details
ORCHARD PORTMAN CP ST22SW ORCHARD PORTMAN VILLAGE
4/156 Orchard Portman Farmhouse
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- II
Farmhouse. Mid C19 on site of earlier building. Squared blue lias and sandstone, brick dressings render grooved as ashlar on ground floor facade and ground floor left return, hipped slate roofs, steeped pitch to service block, brick stacks. Plan: double pile house facing east, remains of verandah south side, service block north-west corner. Two storeys, 3 bays; first floor 12-pane sashes with marginal glazing bars in segmental openings, ground floor canted outer bays, similar sashes, cantilevered porch on shaped brackets, boarded soffit, across the width of facade, central panelled door with 4-lights and fanlight above; abutting left, raking wall to verandah coped stone verge with pyramid finial, pointed arched entrance, boarded red and blue glazed brick quoins, divided tracery head, half glazed door with many lights some broken at time of survey (February 1985). Left return: 2:1 bays, ground floor windows set to one side, all 12-pane sashes with marginal glazing bars, decorative iron ties above glazed 4-bay verandah, raking buttresses pierced by pointed arch openings with banded red and blue glazed brick quoins, coped verge to end bay, one missing or never built, remains of patterned tiled pavement; service wing 1:2 bays set back to rear, entrance in angle with cantilevered wooden porch. Part of the Portman estate.
Listing NGR: ST2453321391
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 270879
- 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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