GOOSE HILL, MOUNTING BLOCK AND WALLS ENCLOSING FRONT GARDEN WITH MOONGATE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1177998
Date first listed:: 31-Aug-1973
List Entry Name:: GOOSE HILL, MOUNTING BLOCK AND WALLS ENCLOSING FRONT GARDEN WITH MOONGATE
Statutory Address:: GOOSE HILL, MOUNTING BLOCK AND WALLS ENCLOSING FRONT GARDEN WITH MOONGATE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1177998
Date first listed:: 31-Aug-1973
List Entry Name:: GOOSE HILL, MOUNTING BLOCK AND WALLS ENCLOSING FRONT GARDEN WITH MOONGATE
Statutory Address 1:: GOOSE HILL, MOUNTING BLOCK AND WALLS ENCLOSING FRONT GARDEN WITH MOONGATE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GOOSE HILL, MOUNTING BLOCK AND WALLS ENCLOSING FRONT GARDEN WITH MOONGATE

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 21279 19335

Details

ST2lNW PITMINSTER CP SELLICKS GREEN 10/147 Goose Hill, mounting block and walls enclosing front garden with moongate 31.8.73 II

Farmhouse and garden wails. Late medieval, ceiled C17, subsequently altered, refenestrated c1900, outshut at rear late C20, Random rubble chert stone, roughcast on facade, thatched roof, half hipped left gable end, clay tiled extension at rear, brick stacks right gable end and left of cross passage. Plan: open hall, thought to have been ceiled to 3-cell and cross passage with inner room subsequently demolished. One and a half storeys, 4 bays; 3 and 4-light many paned casements, 2 eyebrow dormers with 2 later window insertions below eaves level, 4-light casements flanking central gabled late C19-early C20 porch with ashlar quoins to elliptical headed opening, lancet on returns, C20 plank door with bulls-eye glass, Right return 2 bays, to left of stack full height projection, to right 2-light steeply chamfered mullioned window in gable end, evidence of blocked opening below; 4-step mounting block. Interior not seen. Said to contain 2 smoke blackened archbraced jointed crucks, hall fireplace has plinth on rear wall in cross passage, chamfered lintel with stops and chamfered wooden door frame resited when stairs altered in hall; chamfered beams with scroll stops in both rooms. The projection by kitchen stack is believed to have been a curing chamber or stair turret. Walls with moongate, possibly c1900. Random rubble chert, hit and miss coping, returned from gable ends to enclose front garden on south front of house. Moon gate on west side with small summerhouse in north west corner. Also known as Gore Hill. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, January 1972, February 1983).

Listing NGR: ST2127919335

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 271090
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in January, (1972)
'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in February, (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.