FYRSE COTTAGE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1177225
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1955
List Entry Name:: FYRSE COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: FYRSE COTTAGE

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Date:: 2002-09-16
Reference:: IOE01/08925/03
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1177225
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1955
List Entry Name:: FYRSE COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: FYRSE COTTAGE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: FYRSE COTTAGE

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Stoke St. Mary
National Grid Reference:: ST 26375 22347

Details

STOKE ST MARY CP ST22SE STOKE ST MARY VILLAGE

5/129 Fyrse Cottage

25.2.55

GV II

Cottage. C16, dated 1658, refenestrated early C20. Rendered over rubble, thatched roof, double Roman tiles to single storey garage adjoining, brick stacks gable ends and to left of cross passage. L-plan. 3-cell and cross passage, addition at rear, garage right. One and a half storeys, 2:2 bays, C20 leaded metal windows first floor, 3-light mullioned and transomed windows with gabled tops in outer bays, 3-light casements beside, all rising from below eaves, ground floor left large 2-light Ham stone mullioned windows, chamfered with runout stops, 3-light casement left of entrance, another Ham stone mullioned 3-light casement beyond, double garage doors, chamfered square headed doorway, studded plank door with long hinges, possibly C17, above date stone inscribed Thomas Fyrse 1658. Interior: cross passage wall right rebuilt timber partition, chamfered beam with scroll stops to former kitchen, chamfered lintel to fireplace said to have evidence of former bacon curing chamfer, left cross passage wall refaced in stone, timber framed corridor wall at rear with brick infill, 3-light octagonal mullioned window on rear wall, lateral beams to hall and west end room. Upper storey said to contain evidence of jointed cruck roof. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, February 1974 and January 1975).

Listing NGR: ST2637522347

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Legacy System number:: 270918
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in January, (1975)
'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in February, (1974)

Legal

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