Orchard Farmhouse
ORCHARD FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182779
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ORCHARD FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182779
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ORCHARD 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:
- ORCHARD FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- East Kennett
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 11985 67413
Details
SU 16 NW WEST OVERTON EAST KENNET 9/130 Orchard Farmhouse 27.2.58 II Farmhouse gable end to road. C16, C17 and C18. Sarsen, with brick facade and extensions and brick gable. Thatched roof. Originally single storey, now part single-storey and attic, part 2 storeys. 3½ bays with central kitchen wing to rear. Central living hall with inserted stack with cross passage to rear, inner room in left bay with dog-leg stair, and below cross passage a dairy, possibly originally a byre. Door to cross passage within C20 open trellis porch. Square bay to inner parlour, and paned casement windows. Left end heightened to 2 storeys probably in C18. Interior has spine beams in hall with ogee and bar stops, supported on carved timber corbel in framed screen to upper end. Early-mid C16 fire hood. Stair in parlour C18. Smoke blackening in roof. Deeds relate to an estate of 1543-4. (Wilbr B2368)
Listing NGR: SU1198567413
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 311382
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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