Oatens Farmhouse
OATENS FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177484
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Oatens Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- OATENS FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177484
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Oatens Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- OATENS 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:
- OATENS FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Churchstanton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 18902 12297
Details
ST11SE CHURCHSTANTON CP
7/18 Oatens Farmhouse
II
Longhouse. Possibly late medieval, ceiled C16, subsequently altered, restored C20. Roughcast over rubble, half hipped thatched roof, stone stacks left gable end and to left of through passage. Longhouse, 2 rooms left of through passage originally open hall, 2 storeys inserted right with end bay open to roof. One and a half storeys, 2:1 bays, all C20 wooden casements, left 2-light set below eaves, roof continued as catslide over projection beside entrance, dormer to right rising from eaves, ground floor 2 windows left, one right of square headed plank door. Interior: recess with canted walls into through passage stack, peaked doorframe adjoining, chamfered lintel to fireplace, bread oven or curing chamber blocked on facade wall, gable end room with lateral chamfered beam, step and runout stops, modern grate with evidence that there was gable entry at one time. This opening now filled with a window with an early C17 table with turned legs forming the lintel. The legs rest on the window cill,and the area beneath is hollow. Why a table should be occupying this position is unclear. It does not appear to be of sufficient quality to have been an altar table. Possibly the result of a centuries old joke, the point of which is now lost, or an early example of surrealism in Sumerset? (Though the parish was in Devon until 1896). To the left of the through passage a smoke blackened jointed cruck is set in from the half-hipped gable end on the front wall, the rear section has been cut. There is considerable smoke blackening on the roof timbers at this end, the result of some agricultural activity. Upper storey of dwelling not sighted; a very interesting farmhouse. (VAG Report unpublished SRO, August 1984).
Listing NGR: ST1890212297
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 271186
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in August, (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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