Brook Farmhouse
BROOK FARMHOUSE, TOP STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200338
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Brook Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BROOK FARMHOUSE, TOP STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14860/34
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200338
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Brook Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROOK FARMHOUSE, TOP STREET
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:
- BROOK FARMHOUSE, TOP STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Somerford
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 96589 83126
Details
GREAT SOMERFORD TOP STREET ST 98 SE 3/218 Brook Farmhouse 12.12.51 GV II Farmhouse, C17 refronted 1803, roughcast with ashlar dressings and stone slate hipped roof. End stacks. Two storeys and attic, 5- window range alternately of paired and single 12-pane sashes in flush ashlar surrounds. Half-glazed door in fourth bay with traceried fanlight in Roman Doric columned open-pedimented surround Plinth, band, rusticated quoins, moulded cornice and parapet. Two hipped dormers. Rear has two dormers, wall-face stack to centre and hipped rear wing each side with dormers. South east wing has roughcast side walls. Ends of main range have rainwater heads dated TPW 1803. Said to have been a C17 house bought by John Pyke in mid C18 and refronted for Thomas Pyke, died 1815. (P. Hobbs, Somerford Magna, 1982 33 and 41)
Listing NGR: ST9658983126
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 316344
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hobbs, P, Somerford Magna, (1982), 33 41
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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