Wayside

WAYSIDE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1177715
Date first listed:
07-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:
Wayside
Statutory Address:
WAYSIDE

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1177715
Date first listed:
07-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:
Wayside
Statutory Address 1:
WAYSIDE

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WAYSIDE

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 21150 18883

Details

PITMINSTER CP ST2lNW BLAGDON HILL 10/104 Wayside GV II Farmhouse, now cottage. Late medieval, ceiled C16, minor alterations C18, refenestrated late C19-early C20. Rendered over rubble, double Roman tile roof with slight bell-cast, decorative ridge tiles, roughcast stacks gable ends. Plan:simple ended open hall house originally extending further west, ceiled to 2-cell with stair set against central axial wall. Two storeys, 2 bays, irregularly placed 3-light casements, entrance centre, double Roman tiled lean-to roofed roughcast porch,C20; right return unlit; said to have altered 4-light hollow chamfered mullioned window on rear elevation. Interior: not seen, said to contain smoke blackened joint cruck truss with evidence of original arch braced open hall roof with wind bracing; C17 stair set beside remains of earlier timber framed partiton to east end with small shell-headed niche, fielded panelled door below, beside semi-circular brick fireplace, fielded panelled door to room.It has been recorded that the width of the dwelling is exceptional suggesting that this night be the remains of a medieval house of some quality. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, January 1983).

Listing NGR: ST2115018883

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
271051
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

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Vernacular Architecture Group Report in January, (1983)

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of Wayside

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