The Old Farmhouse
THE OLD FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177676
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD FARMHOUSE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/12479/13
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177676
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD 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:
- THE OLD FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Pitminster
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 21156 18306
Details
PITMINSTER CP ST21NW BLAGDON HILL 10/102 The Old Farmhouse II Shown on OS map as Lower Blagdon Farm Farmhouse. House. C17. Roughcast and slobbered rubble, steeply pitched double Roman tiled roof, painted brick stacks gable ends. Plan: 2-cell and cross passage with coeval L-plan outshut and extension at rear, barn adjoining. Two storeys, 3 bays; all C20 wooden casements, 2-light first floor with tiny 2-light wooden light to former stair, ground floor 2 and 4-light casements flanking central C20 porch, C20 ribbed plank door with light; left return unlit wall of barn abutting steeply pitched triple Roman tiled roof, weatherboarded gable end; right return small wooden light to stair on ground floor, wall to right of stack projects as L-plan outshot with French windows and C19 leaded casement above. C20 extension at rear including 4-light steeply chamfered wooden mullioned window. Interior not seen, said to contain stud and panel screens to cross passage, chamfered beams with scroll stops; the former kitchen to right with chamfered lintel to fireplace, remains of bread oven; collar beam trusses to roof,small cornice moulding in 2 rooms on upper storey. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, February 1980).
Listing NGR: ST2115618306
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 271049
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in February, (1980)
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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