Lower Sowerhill Farmhouse
LOWER SOWERHILL FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247757
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Sowerhill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER SOWERHILL FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247757
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Sowerhill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER 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:
- LOWER 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 89265 24646
Details
SS82SE BRUSHFORD CP EXEBRIDGE
13/45 Lower Sowerhill Farahouse -
- II
Farmhouse, possibly longhouse. C16, possibly earlier, much altered late C19 and C20. Random rubble local stone, possibly fronting some cob, slate roof hipped to right, external stone stack left gable end, rebuilt brick stack between first and second hays left, large lateral stack to left of entrance. Plan: 4-cell and cross passage. Two storeys, 1:2:2 bays, all C19 window openings with segmental brick heads, small C20 window added first floor left of stack, ground floor windows to right of entrance and C20 picture window end bay left, square headed door, pentice porch. Interior not seen, said to contain 4 moulded beams to hall, presumably forming 9-panel compartment ceiling, peaked doorframe to stair turret at rear, step and runout stops to room to left, room beyond with scroll stops and peaked head doorframe to spiral stair, similar doorframe on first floor with evidence of jointed cruck truss roof rising almost from ground floor level. Listed primarily for historic interest of internal features described in the 1973 VAG Report. (VAG Report, unpublished SR0, February 1973).
Listing NGR: SS8926524646
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 429123
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in February, (1973)
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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