Ballarat Farmhouse
BALLARAT FARMHOUSE, WATER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177586
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Ballarat Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BALLARAT FARMHOUSE, WATER STREET
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- Date:
- 2003-04-26
- Reference:
- IOE01/10588/23
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177586
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Ballarat Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BALLARAT FARMHOUSE, WATER STREET
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:
- BALLARAT FARMHOUSE, WATER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lopen
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 42630 14211
Details
LOPEN CP WATER STREET (South side) ST4214 8/59 Ballarat Farmhouse (previously listed as Ballarat House)
4.2.58
GV II
Detached farmhouse. Early C18. Ham stone coursed rubble, ashlar dressings; plain clay tiled roof, western section over stone slate base courses, between stepped coped gables; brick chimney stacks. Two storeys with attics; 4-bays north elevation. Bay 1 is set back and slightly lower, with a 2-light C20 window above, and to right of bay a 6-fielded-panel door protected by open stone porch with Tuscan columns and pilaster and plain entablature; to left of bay 1 a projecting wing, possibly a dairy, with boarded door and window in north gable, and leaded casement in west side: remaining windows to this elevation chamfer-mullioned, with a 2-light to lower bay 2, plain above, and a 2-light transomed window, deep, at upper level bay 3, matched by a similar window in the west gable. South elevation similar, but the 2 west bays are in ashlar, and has another open porch to the left of the east bay. Attic window in east gable. Interior not seen.
Listing NGR: ST4263014211
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 264143
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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