FAIRHOUSE FARMHOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1177497
Date first listed:: 18-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: FAIRHOUSE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: FAIRHOUSE FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1177497
Date first listed:: 18-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: FAIRHOUSE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: FAIRHOUSE FARMHOUSE

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:: FAIRHOUSE 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 21916 12308

Details

ST21SW CHURCHSTANTON CP CHURCHINFORD

8/20 Fairhouse Farmhouse

II*

Farmhouse. Late medieval, ceiled C16, extended one bay west possibly C17, north wing added late C18-early C19. Rendered over rubble with cob in west end bay, thatched roofs half hipped west end, stone lateral stack to hall on south front, remains of external stack west gable end, stone stack in north wing at junction with main block, brick stack north gable end. L-plan, open hall house ceiled to 3-cell and cross passage lying east-west, extended one bay west end, 2-cell north wing addition with stair-case. Entrance front (north) one and a half storeys, north gable end unlit, 3-bay re-entrant angle, 4-bay original block; first floor left dormers flanking 3-light leaded iron casement set below eaves, right C20 window inserted over entrance, 4-light leaded iron casement dormer window, C20 window set below eaves, end bay left unlit; ground floor left 4 and 3 light C19 wooden casements, lean-to porch in angle with pointed arch doorframe to inner doorway, right 2-light leaded iron casement, C20 window centre and 3-light leaded iron casement end bay right. Interior not seen: said to contain stud and plank screen to through passage with remains of pointed arch doorway, 4-panel compartment ceiling to hall with modern grate to lateral stack; there is another stud and plank screen between the hall and inner room which contains narrow axial passage to west gable end addition this partition also a stud and plank screen. Jointed cruck truss visible inside west gable end and 4 plastered over trusses visible inside west gable end; 4 plastered over trusses to east are assumed also to be crucks. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, June 1977).

Listing NGR: ST2191612308

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Legacy System number:: 271188
Legacy System:: LBS

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'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in June, (1977)

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