The Old Prebendal House
THE OLD PREBENDAL HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177270
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Prebendal House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD PREBENDAL HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177270
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Prebendal House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD PREBENDAL HOUSE
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 OLD PREBENDAL HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cudworth
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 37369 10898
Details
ST31SE CUDSWORTH CP
2/25 The Old Prebendal House - GV II
(Vicarage on OS map). Former vicarage, now private house, Cl7, modified in C19. Ham stone ashlar; Welsh slate roof with plain overhung gables; stone end chimney stacks. 'T'-plan; 2 storeys with attic, 3 bays, symmetrical facade. Plinth; ovolo-mould mullioned windows in wave-mould recesses, the lower 4-light with labels; the upper 3-light with flat lintel-heads to outer bays, with a C19 2- light chamfered mullioned window to upper bay 2; C19 door to lower bay 2, protected by an open timber porch, above which is the water table for an earlier porch. West gable has chamfer-mullioned windows to each level, 4-light to ground floor, 3-light to first floor and 2-light to attic, all with labels and all now blind. East gable has 3-light blocked windows to ground and first floors, and indications of an attic window formerly. Another 4-light mullioned window in rear elevation, and rear extension has a window apparently made from a former cambered-arched doorframe, Internal plan of 3 rooms, the rear extension being the kitchen, with lower floor, cambered arched fireplace in north gable wall and oven alongside, with curing chamber: other rooms adapted with C19 fireplaces behind blocked windows. An unusual plan for the date, but it is clearly described in, and and identifiable from, a Glebe Terrier of 1636 (VCH Somerset, Vol IV l978; VAG Report, unpublished SR0, l984).
Listing NGR: ST3736910898
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262152
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1978)
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, (1984)
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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