Lower Brown Farmhouse
LOWER BROWN FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248027
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Brown Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER BROWN FARMHOUSE
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- Date:
- 2006-08-03
- Reference:
- IOE01/15602/23
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248027
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Brown Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER BROWN 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 BROWN 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 02262 31212
Details
ST03SW HUISH CHAMPFLOWER CP -
5/93 Lower Brown Farmhouse -
GV II Farmhouse. Early C19. Rebuilt at rear mid C20. Roughcast over rubble, slate hung facade, shallow pitch slate roof, overhanging eaves, brick stacks gable ends, external stack with offsets left gable end, another brick stack between first and second bays left. Plan: development of 3-cell and cross passage plan with staircase set in through passage, 2-storey outshot at rear. Two storeys, 3:1 bays, first floor left 16-pane sash windows flanking 12-pane above entrance, C20 window end bay right, ground floor flat lead roofed canted bays with 16-pane sash windows flanking gabled porch with segmental headed opening, flush panel inner door, C20 window end bay right. C20 fenestration to rear elevation. Interior: moulded arch heads to stairway and cellar entrance adjoining, otherwise without dateable features. The external stack suggests that possibly an earlier dwelling way have been incorporated. This hamlet is documented as an early medieval settlement. (VCH Somerset, Vol V, l985).
Listing NGR: ST0226231212
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 429518
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dunning, R W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1985)
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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