Higher Farmhouse
HIGHER FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1240334
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1240334
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1991
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Mar-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER 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:
- HIGHER FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dowlish Wake
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 37566 12641
Details
DOWLISH WAKE ST 31 SE 2/10001 HIGHER FARMHOUSE
Grade II
Farmhouse, now house C16 with C17 alterations. Squared and coursed limestone with stone-coped thatch roof, pantile to rear and brick ridge stack. C16 house of 3-unit plan with 2 integral units to rear left formed out of tall outshut; C17 fireplace block probably replaced; C16 smoke bay. 2 storeys and attic; 3 window range. C20 thatch porch and mullioned windows to front. Right-hand (south) gable has C17 ovolo-moulded stone- mullioned windows. Interior noted as having C16 chamfered beams with keeled stops and C17 fireplace with depressed centred arches. C16 plank and muntin screen to room on right and to rear outshut. C17 stair with solid timber treads and first-floor doorways with depressed 4-centred heads, jointed cruck roof. An exceptionally early example of a C16 house with an integral rear outshut. (VAG report).
Listing NGR: ST3756612641
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262248
- 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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