CHITCOMBE FARMHOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1247977
Date first listed:: 04-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: CHITCOMBE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: CHITCOMBE FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1247977
Date first listed:: 04-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: CHITCOMBE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: CHITCOMBE FARMHOUSE

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:: CHITCOMBE FARMHOUSE

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Huish Champflower
National Grid Reference:: ST 02081 31004

Details

ST03SW HUISH CHAMPFLOWER CP -

5/91 Chitcombe Farmhouse - - II Longhouse, now farmhouse. C16, lower end subsequently rebuilt, extended with store at upper end, reroofed and refenestrated C19. Rendered over rubble, slate roofs extending left over former curing chamber ano addition to west, central roughcast start wth rebuilt brick chimney, lower independently roofed east end, extended as catslide over dairy, C20 roughcast stack rising from eaves centre. Plan; faces south, site slopes steeply away to east, probably 2-cell of longhouse extended west with store, rebuilt east end with single cell through passage and dairy beyond. Two storeys,1:2 bays, all late C19 and early C20 casements, end bay left loft over store, square headed doorway, windows opening to former curing chamber wall set back with 3-light window first floor, similar below to left of door, 2-light beyond and lower block with 2-light window first floor, nesting boxes at end, ground floor one window right and 2 left of plank door. Interior: chamfered beams with scroll stops to kitchen, chamfered lintel to fireplace with remains of curing chamber to left, stair inserted against rear wall, another stair in projection from rear wall of centre room, beyond chamfered beams with step and runout stops either reset or very late. Upper storey: 6-panel raised and fielded door; appears to have been reroofed in C19.

Listing NGR: ST0208131004

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Legacy System number:: 429468
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.