BUCKLAND FARMHOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1180164
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1956
List Entry Name:: BUCKLAND FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: BUCKLAND FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1180164
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1956
Date of most recent amendment:: 07-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: BUCKLAND FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BUCKLAND FARMHOUSE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: BUCKLAND FARMHOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: West Buckland
National Grid Reference:: ST 18181 19395

Details

ST11NE WEST BUCKLAND CP

9/196 Buckland Farmhouse (formerly listed as West Buckland Farmhouse) 25.1.56 II*

Farmhouse, Late C16, restored 1982-5. Roughcast over rubble, slate roof, coped verges, brick stacks gable ends of wings and to right of through passage. U-plan on sloping site: 2-cell and cross passage facing west, T-plan stair rising on gabled east front, cellar below south-east wing. Two storeys, 2:1 bays, west front late C19 3-light casements except first floor right 4-light steeply chamfered wooden mullioned casement, central gabled porch, C19 decorative bargeboards, half-glazed door. Right return (south front): 3 bays, central doorway approached by 2 steps, to right basement lit by single light left and 2-light right ovolo moulded stone mullioned windows with square hoodmoulds; there is a similar blocked window on rear elevation of this wing; north-east wing with hoodmould to window and door in gable end, 2 and 3-light steeply chamfered wooden mullioned windows on returns; chamfered square headed doorway to cellar centre left, C18 door, cross passage doorway right. Interior: plank and muntin screen to left of cross passage, renewed plinth, chamfered lintel to kitchen fireplace with curing chamber bay left, empty stair bay right, square headed chamfered doorway to wing; right of through passage steeply chamfered beams, rebuilt fireplace; cellar with stone steps; south-east wing 6-panel compartment ceiling with decorative strapwork plaster, remains of C18 panelling around fireplace with space for overmantel picture (original panelling said to have been removed to Gerbestone Manor (qv) in the 1930s); first floor one bay of joint cruck truss visible, ribbed plaster ceiling in south-west room of main block, small room enclosed with plank and suntin screens on 2 sides, peaked door trades; roof space not seen. Original floor boards and number of early doors surviving. (Pevsner, Buildings of England, South and Vest Somerset, 1958).

Listing NGR: ST1818119395

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Legacy System number:: 271138
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)

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