WITCOMBE MANOR FARMHOUSE AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEWAY

WITCOMBE MANOR FARMHOUSE AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEWAY, WITCOMBE LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1239726
Date first listed:: 19-Apr-1961
List Entry Name:: WITCOMBE MANOR FARMHOUSE AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEWAY
Statutory Address:: WITCOMBE MANOR FARMHOUSE AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEWAY, WITCOMBE LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1239726
Date first listed:: 19-Apr-1961
List Entry Name:: WITCOMBE MANOR FARMHOUSE AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEWAY
Statutory Address 1:: WITCOMBE MANOR FARMHOUSE AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEWAY, WITCOMBE LANE

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:: WITCOMBE MANOR FARMHOUSE AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEWAY, WITCOMBE LANE

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Ash
National Grid Reference:: ST 47666 21527

Details

ST42NE ASH CP WITCOMBE LANE (West side)

3/38 Witcombe Manor Farmhouse, and front boundary wall and gateway

19.4.61

GV II

Detached farmhouse. C17, one section possibly earlier. Ham stone ashlar and squared rubble. part abestos cement slate and part Welsh slate roof between high stepped coped gables, suggesting former thatch; brick and stone chimney stacks. Two storeys, 5 bays. Ovolo-mould mullioned windows in wave-mould recesses. of 3,3,3,2 and 2 light above and 4, 2, 4 and 2 light below, the last being between bays 4 and 5; continous string to bays 1 and 2, continued and stepped up over flat-arched ovolo-moulded doorway right of bay 2, separate labels lower bays 3 and 4/5. Further mullioned windows with hood mould to south gable. Interior not seen, but reported are deep-chamfered beams with step and runout stos; an adapted cambered-arched fireplace in north room; C18 oanelling in middle room, with overlap plank partition to rear; in south room scroll-stops to beams and fireplace lintol; to rear a formerly detached kitchen, also an agricultural building separated from the farmhouse by a circular stone track for a horse engine. About 4 metres east of house, a near ashlar wall with thin angled coping, one metre high, with square piers having plain plinth and pyramidal caps to gateway opposite door, which has a pair of C19 wrot iron gates; all adding to the setting of the house. (VAG Report, SRO Unpublished April 1982).

Listing NGR: ST4766621527

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Legacy System number:: 263423
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in April, (1982)

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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.