Flaxdrayton Farmhouse
FLAXDRAYTON FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1178104
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Flaxdrayton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- FLAXDRAYTON FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1178104
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Flaxdrayton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- FLAXDRAYTON 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:
- FLAXDRAYTON FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- South Petherton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 45223 15904
Details
SOUTH PETHERTON CP ST41NE DRAYTON 3/102 Flaxdrayton Farmhouse (formerly listed as Drayton Farmhouse)
19.4.61
GV II
Detached farmhouse. Probably late C17, but soon rebuilt after fire, and modified. Ham stone ashlar; welsh slate roof between high coped gables suggesting former thatch; brick end chimney sticks. Two storeys with attic and basement, 3-bay south-east elevation, at right angles to road. Plinth: hollow-chamfer mullioned windows in chamfered recesses with unworked top mitres, individual labels, but on front elevation the former 4-and 3-light windows have had 2 mullions removed, so that the outer bays have pairs of casements and the upper centre a 3-light horizontal-bar casement; to lower centre bay a C20 boarded door in cambered archway with incised spandrils in deep lintel with label. North-west gable has attic and first floor windows of 2 lights, mullions intact; also a single-storey extension with plain clay tiled roof and further lean-to on south side; single-light attic window to south-east gable. Interior not seen, but reported are many indications of fire damage; two room x 2 room plan, central passage not a throughway because of change of levels; beams with small chamfers and step and runout stops; kitchen fireplace with cambered-arched beam, oven and traces of bacon curing chamber; tusk-tenoned roof frame possibly of later date than the rebuilding which was presumably in early C18. (VAG Report, unpublished SR0, July 1980).
Listing NGR: ST4522315904
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 264186
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in July, (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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