Merrifield House, Front Boundary Wall and Adjacent Stile
MERRIFIELD HOUSE, FRONT BOUNDARY WALL AND ADJACENT STILE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225077
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Merrifield House, Front Boundary Wall and Adjacent Stile
- Statutory Address:
- MERRIFIELD HOUSE, FRONT BOUNDARY WALL AND ADJACENT STILE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225077
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Merrifield House, Front Boundary Wall and Adjacent Stile
- Statutory Address 1:
- MERRIFIELD HOUSE, FRONT BOUNDARY WALL AND ADJACENT STILE
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:
- MERRIFIELD HOUSE, FRONT BOUNDARY WALL AND ADJACENT STILE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Martock
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 45699 17998
Details
Merrifield House, front boundary wall and adjacent stile, Bower Hinton. 15/180) 16/180) 10/180 11/180 parts
------------------------------------ Merrifield House, front boundary wall and adjacent stile, Bower Hinton. 15/180) 16/180) 10/180 11/180 parts ------------------------------------ ST1418 MARTOCK CP ST4517 BOWER HINTON
15/180 Merifield House, front boundary 16/180 wall and adjacent stile
19.4.61
GV II
Detached house. C17. Ham stone ashlar, and some cut and squared work; thatched roof between coped gables: brick chimney stacks on stone bases. Two storeys with attic, 4 bays, of which bays 3 and 4 are in ashlar. Ovolo-mould mullioned windows, 3-light above except bay 1 which is 2- light, under shared square labels in pairs; below 4-light windows under separate labels to bays 2 and 4; lower bay 3 has a C19 angled bay window with plain sashes and stepped hipped stone roof: to lower bay 1 a moulded cambered-arched doorway with square label over deep lintol, having an early C20 part-glazed door. In south gable 3-light hollow-chamfer mullioned windows; against north gable a single-storey extension under triple roll clay tile roof. Interior not seen, but reported is a modified internal plan, with fine ogee-mould flat arched fireplace in south room, and collar beam trusses. About 2.5m from house, with curved sweeps back up to house, a stone wall about 1.2m high with thin shaped coping; opposite the doorway 2 square piers with stepped tops ending in ball finials; off north-west corner a low stone stile to the public footpath which runs along the north side of the property, contributing to the setting of the house. (VAG Report, SRO Unpublished, 1976).
Listing NGR: ST4569917998
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 421329
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, (1976)
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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