THE GATE PIERS AND EAST BOUNDARY WALL, UPPER THORN FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1248854
Date first listed:: 06-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: THE GATE PIERS AND EAST BOUNDARY WALL, UPPER THORN FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE GATE PIERS AND EAST BOUNDARY WALL, UPPER THORN FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1248854
Date first listed:: 06-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: THE GATE PIERS AND EAST BOUNDARY WALL, UPPER THORN FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE GATE PIERS AND EAST BOUNDARY WALL, UPPER THORN FARMHOUSE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: THE GATE PIERS AND EAST BOUNDARY WALL, UPPER THORN FARMHOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: North Barrow
National Grid Reference:: ST6149129973

Details

ST62NE 4/77

NORTH BARROW CP

The gate piers and east boundary wall, Upper Thorn Farmhouse

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GV II

Boundary wall and gate piers. Early C19. Red brick, the curve in Flemish bond, the remainder in English garden wall bond, with Doulting stone piers and clay tile copings. Wall has shaped tile copings, average 1.2 metres high, with sweeps up to 2 metres before the concave returns to the rusticated ashlar stone piers, which have heavily moulded tops with step and low pyramid finials: no gates. The wall is contemporary with, and complementary to, Upper Thorn Farmhouse (qv).

Listing NGR: ST6149129973

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Legacy System number:: 430611
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.