Standerwick Farm
STANDERWICK FARM, PYLE WELL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1248456
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Standerwick Farm
- Statutory Address:
- STANDERWICK FARM, PYLE WELL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1248456
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Standerwick Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- STANDERWICK FARM, PYLE WELL LANE
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:
- STANDERWICK FARM, PYLE WELL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Babcary
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 58206 29174
Details
BABCARY CP PYLE WELL LANE ST52NE HIGHER FODDINGTON 3/18 Standerwick Farm 17.4.59 - II* Detached farmhouse. Circa 1400 and c1550, with later modifications. Local grey lias stone roughly cut and squared, Doulting and Ham stone dressings; double Roman clay tile roofs, gabled, with some copings; brick and stone chimney stacks. L-plan; 2 storeys, the southern section with attic; west elevation 5 bays. Bays 1 to 3 represent the earlier building, with hollow-chamfer mullioned windows in wave mould reveals, with square labels; to lower bays 1 and 2 flat arched lights of 3 and 2 lights respectively; to lower bay 3 an earlier 2-light window with 4-centre arched lights; above C20 windows to match set in gables: bays 4 and 5 represent the later wing at right angles, with outshut to angle; lower bay 4 has a 2-light C15 traceried window, bay 5 has 2-light C15 hollow chamfer mullioned windows to right of a projecting chimney stack with offsets: between lower bays 2 and 3 a projecting porch with 4-centre moulded arch dorway and studded boarded door set under coped gable. South elevation of 2 bays, with dividing buttress; C16 4-centre arched light hollow chamfered mullioned windows with incised spandrels, of 4-lights bay 1 and 2-lights upper bay 2; a late: doorway below currently protected by C20 conservatory with stone wing walls and clay tile roof. Inside the lower earlier portion has one fine ground floor room with a 9-panel ceiling having deep moulded beams, C17 wall panelling and a fireplace surround, possibly C15, relocated from first floor: south portion has circular stone stair to first floor, and one good main room with a 9-panel ceiling having chamfered beams, a moulded cambered arched fireplace with carved shields in spandrels and apparently early herringbone brick fireback, and a chamfered edge elm overlap board partition; the roof to the north portion of C20, but to the south portion (not inspected) said to be of original date; on 1859 photograph in the house shows that both roofs were originally thatched. Quite possibly a manor house; north of the house are the unexcavated remains of a medieval village; to the east is a fishpond, and there are substantial traces of a moat.
Listing NGR: ST5820629174
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263338
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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