Manor Farmhouse
MANOR FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1248812
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Manor Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR FARMHOUSE
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- 2004-04-10
- Reference:
- IOE01/12124/02
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1248812
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Nov-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Manor Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR 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:
- MANOR FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tatworth and Forton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST3361606970
Details
TATWORTH AND FORTON CP
ST30NW FORTON
8/97 Manor Farmhouse
(formerly listed as Forton Manor
Farmhouse in the Civil Parish of
Chard)
4.2.58
GV II*
Farmhouse. Late medieval open hall house, ceiled subsequently, enlarged early-mid C17, partly demolished early C20,
rear wall rebuilt mid-late C20. Roughcast over rubble exposed on rebuilt south-west gable end, thatched roof hipped to
left, rebuilt brick stack second bay left, large lateral stack to right of original entrance. Plan: open hall house,
ceiled and extended one bay south-west (or lower and rebuilt), another bay added subsequently and then demolished,
lower roofed single bay agricultural addition at north-east end. Two storeys, 1:3:1 bays, eaves line higher to right
of stack, all renewed casements, lower roofed addition unlit first floor, inserted window ground floor and another to
right with inserted C20 door, wide pointed arch chamfered doorframe with refaced door beside lateral stack. Interior:
beams to left of through passage boxed in, grate blocked with bread oven projecting at rear into present kitchen,
former scullery. To right of through passage plank and muntin screen with depressed ogee-head opening to room with
lateral stack and blocked grate, arch head opening in screen to small room at rear. Straight stair rising in through
passage with arched head on landing and turned newels. To right framed collar beam truss above the plank and muntin
screen, one open and another framed at present gable end of building with 2 inserted doorways, now blocked, depressed
Tudor arch head Ham stone chimney piece on facade wall; end walls and sloping ceilings, apart from one beside
chimneypiece, embellished with cartouches containing strapwork decoration and biblical texts in English; there are
rosettes on gable end wall, early-mid C17. The colours are grey, black and gold, and the paintings have recently been
restored, Three pairs of jointed cruck trusses visible to north-east. A watercolour of the farmhouse of C1910 shows the
demolished south-west end bay with a hipped roof and lit on first floor only.
Listing NGR: ST3361606970
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 430554
- 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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