Combe Hill Farmhouse and Walls Returned on South Front With Gatepiers
COMBE HILL FARMHOUSE AND WALLS RETURNED ON SOUTH FRONT WITH GATEPIERS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248448
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Combe Hill Farmhouse and Walls Returned on South Front With Gatepiers
- Statutory Address:
- COMBE HILL FARMHOUSE AND WALLS RETURNED ON SOUTH FRONT WITH GATEPIERS
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248448
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Combe Hill Farmhouse and Walls Returned on South Front With Gatepiers
- Statutory Address 1:
- COMBE HILL FARMHOUSE AND WALLS RETURNED ON SOUTH FRONT WITH GATEPIERS
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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:
- COMBE HILL FARMHOUSE AND WALLS RETURNED ON SOUTH FRONT WITH GATEPIERS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Combe St. Nicholas
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 30618 10926
Details
COMBE ST NICHOLAS CP COMBE HILL (south side) ST31SW
6/54 Combe Hill Farmhouse and walls returned on south front with gatepiers (formerly listed as separate items) 4.2.58
- II
Farmhouse, now dwelling. Dated 1664, north-east wing added soon after, lower end rebuilt with service wing and altered internally early C19. Squared and coursed chert and red sandstone in chequerboard pattern, plinth on facade and left return, quoins, roughcast right return and rear elevations, slate roofs, lower independently roofed north-east wing, north-west gable fronted cross wing higher than main black with brick stack rear gable end, C19 brick stack on main range above north-east wing, large lateral stack at rear. Plan: 3- cell and cross passage, facing north-east, lower end extended with wing at rear, north-east wing opening off hall. Two storeys, 1:2 bays, all ovolo moulded mullioned windows, gable end of wing left unlit first floor, 4-light ovolo moulded mullioned windows under hoodmoulds centre and below gable right, ground floor left 3-light mullioned window in wing, 2-light in re-entrant angle, 5-light left and 4-light right of 6-panel door with reeded surround. Left return (south-east front) gable end of main range left, date stone in apex, blocked 3-light window to right, other 3-light mullioned windows below to first and ground floor, 4-light mullioned window in wing. Interior not seen, said to have been substantially altered with original collar beam roof remaining in main block. It is an unusual plan, possibly the north-east wing was a parlour, whose details are not lost. Wells and gatepiers; random rubble chert stone wall, returned iron north corner of house, 8ai stone gatepiers with cavetto moulded cornice and plinth, urn finials with flowers and guilloche tops. Imposing farmhouse occupying a prominent position on the road beteen Combe St Nicholas and Wadeford. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, n.d.).
Listing NGR: ST3061810926
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 430045
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
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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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