MANOR FARMHOUSE

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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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Official list entry

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

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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:: MANOR FARMHOUSE

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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

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Legacy System number:: 430554
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.