Higher Whatley Farmhouse
HIGHER WHATLEY FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177616
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Whatley Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER WHATLEY FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177616
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Whatley Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER WHATLEY 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:
- HIGHER WHATLEY FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Otterford
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 24728 13144
Details
ST21SW OTTERFORD CP
8/37 Higher Whatley Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. C17, west end rebuilt or enlarged probably 1814. Random rubble chert stone, steeply pitched corrugated iron roof said to conceal thatch beneath, coped verges right gable end, brick stacks gable ends, right hand stack on stone base. Plan: 3-cell with outshots at rear. Two storeys, 1:2 bays, C20 3-light casements, gable porch between first and second bays right bay left, slate roof and inscription over segmental headed entrance, 'Rob. Willie 1814 Let wisdom always flourish, and folly ever cease for wisdoms ways are pleasentness and all her paths are peace". The name Samuel Shire has been super imposed and the date altered to 1824. Interior not seen, said to contain in east end room (right gable end) chamfered wooden lintel to fireplace, brick lined oven with iron door, stud and panel partition, chamfered on west side only, possibly reset, peaked doorway to outshot; centre room featureless with stair set against rear wall and west end room with different wall thickness suggesting a rebuilding or addition. Principal rafter roof. There is a chest tomb (qv) to Robert Willie, died 1820, in the churchyard of the parish church. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, 1982).
Listing NGR: ST2472813144
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 271205
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, (1982)
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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