Higher Sowerhill Farmhouse
HIGHER SOWERHILL FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247755
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Sowerhill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER SOWERHILL FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247755
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Sowerhill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER SOWERHILL 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 SOWERHILL FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brushford
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 89082 24613
Details
SS92SE BRUSHFORD CP EXEBRIDGE
13/42 Higher Somerhill Farmhouse -
- II
Farmhouse. C16, refenestrated C19 and some internal alterations early C20. Roughcast over rubble and cob, thatched roof, external stacks gable ends, rebuilt brick chimney right, roughcast left, roof continued as catslide over enlarged lateral stack right of entrance with rebuilt brick chimney. Plan: 3-cell and cross passage, passage now blocked, stair turret opening out of hall, outshot at rear, Two storeys, 1:2 bays, full height projecting chimney bay to right of entrance, 2 and 3-light wooden casements, leaded light on right return of chimney bay, plank door with inserted light and hooded thatched porch. Left return gable end first floor, Gothic window with divided tracery. Interior: former kitchen to left of through passage is featureless, chamfered plank and muntin screen with depressed Tudor arch head, chamfered beams with step and runout stops, C19 lintel to hall fireplace, bread oven, inner room with lateral beams, possibly rebuilt; upper floor, stud and plant screen infill to one of 3 pairs of jointed crucks, one rising from floor level. The farmhouse is shown as Higher Sourill on the 1822 Greewood map of Somerset. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, April 1975).
Listing NGR: SS8908224613
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 429121
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in April, (1975)
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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