Frog Farmhouse

FROG FARMHOUSE, COOMBE ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1176995
Date first listed:
04-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:
Frog Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
FROG FARMHOUSE, COOMBE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1176995
Date first listed:
04-Feb-1958
Date of most recent amendment:
18-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:
Frog Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
FROG FARMHOUSE, COOMBE ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
FROG FARMHOUSE, COOMBE ROAD

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

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Dinnington
National Grid Reference:
ST4025712734

Details

DINNINGTON CP COOMBE ROAD (West side)
ST41SW

5/15 Frog Farmhouse
(previously listed, incorrectly,
as Parsonage Farm House)

4.2.58

GV II

Detached farmhouse.C17.Ham stone ashlar; plain clay tiled roof with stone slate base courses between stepped coped
gables; brick end chimney stacks. Two storeys, 3-bay symmetrical facade. Ovolo-mould mullioned windows in wave- mould
recesses, no labels, 4-light to outer bays and 3-light upper centre bay, with some iron-framed opening lights having
curl stops, and horizontal glazing bars; to lower bay 2 a beaded architrave with base stops framing a 4-panel
part-glazed door, up one step. Against north gable, set back, a 2-storey single-bay extension with double Roman clay
tiled roof and brick chimney stack, no windows to east front but in north gable two 3-light ovolo-mould mullioned
windows in wave-mould recesses with square labels; south gable plain. Low single-storey extension to rear. Interior not
seen, but reported is a roof frame of tenoned purlin construction, probably of c1796 when substantial works were
carried out. House thought to be the manor house belonging to the Pouletts but leased to the Brice family; house gained
its present name alter 1811 when it ceased to be the capital mansion; the estate dates from before 1246. (VAG Report,
SR0 unpublished, 1973; VCH, Vol III, 1974).


Listing NGR: ST4025712734

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
264100
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1974)
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, (1973)

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of Frog Farmhouse

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