The Vicarage
THE VICARAGE, COW SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1177266
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Vicarage
- Statutory Address:
- THE VICARAGE, COW SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1177266
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Vicarage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE VICARAGE, COW SQUARE
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:
- THE VICARAGE, COW SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Somerton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 48996 28645
Details
ST4828 SOMERTON CP COW SQUARE (West side, off)
8/150 The Vicarage 17.4.59
GV II*
Vicarage. Medieval origins, reshaped and extended 1815 and later. Local lias stone cut and squared, Ham stone dressings; plain clay tile roofs, some hipped, some gabled with or without copings; stone chimney stacks. 'L'-plan; 2 storeys with attics: east entrance elevation 2 bays + 2 bays returning : south wing has 12-pane sash windows, but to lower bay 2 offcentre is a 6-panel door with glazed toplight set in open timber and tiled porch; return eastwards has, on south face, 3-light hollow-chamfered mullioned windows with labels and horizontal bar casements, and on east gable three similar windows, of which the attic is only 2-light. west, garden, elevation, of 4 bays, has chamfered mullioned windows to bay 1 of 3-lights, the lower with transome; bay 2 has composite sash window of 4+12+4 panes, and above, set under a coped gable, a pair of 15-pane sash windows set into the moulded recess of a c1500 window, with label over; bay 3 has 12- pane sash windows, bay 4 a slightly projecting chimney stack. south end gable features early C19 angled bay window of 2 storeys, with 12-pane sash windows each face, the lower centre being extended to form French door, which has light metal-work porch with ogee metal hood. Inside, much of the work, including the staircase is of c1815, but one room on west side has a deep double-wave moulded beam-and-panel ceiling of 9 bays, relic of a late medieval range incorporated into the north wing, which could be the solar wing of a yet earlier house; east end has partition truss at first floor level separating room with formerly an open timber roof; below this a cambered arched doorway and an inserted fireplace of C16/C17 on south wall; said to be sealed in over suspected solar is a 4-bay roof of arched braced collar bead trusses with 2 chamfered through-purlins to each slope, and 3 tiers of windbraces, the top with curves reversed; the feet only of two trusses visible from below. (VCH, Volume III, 1974).
Listing NGR: ST4899628645
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262956
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (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.
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