Lakehayes
LAKEHAYES, SCHOOL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249267
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lakehayes
- Statutory Address:
- LAKEHAYES, SCHOOL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249267
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lakehayes
- Statutory Address 1:
- LAKEHAYES, SCHOOL LANE
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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:
- LAKEHAYES, SCHOOL LANE
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:
- ST 32694 05596
Details
ST3205 TATWORTH AND FORTON CP SCHOOL LANE (west side) SOUTH CHARD
12/101 Lakehaves
30-NOV-1987
-
- II
Former farmhouse, now dwelling. Late C16-early C17, refenestrated C19 and C20 and outshut with stair added and part of rear wall rebuilt. Slobbered random rubble and flint with stone quoins. Roof is double Roman tiled roof to front with corrugated sheeting to rear. Roughcast stacks to both gable ends.
Plan: 2-cell and cross passage, single storey outshot at rear and on left return with staircase addition rising from rear of through passage. Two storeys, 5 bays, with mostly 3-light windows of various dates. Front (garden) elevation has central C18 door with raking buttress to right.
Interior: cross passage screens renewed to left, but right retains head beam and cill. Ground floor room to right has chamfered beams with step and runout stops, open fireplace with chamfered lintel. Room to left of passage has blocked fireplace. The roof structure, visible on the upper floor, consists of 3 jointed cruck trusses with trenched purlins and mortice and tenon jointed collars. One cruck has been strengthened with additional timbers and another has a replacement collar.
History: The building is considered to be late C16 or early C17 in date. For a house of this date, it has an unusually large number of window openings at first floor level to the front elevation. It is possible that the first floor may have originally been used for some industrial activity that required good lighting.
Assessment of Importance: Lakehayes is a substantially intact C17 building, despite later changes, and it has significant historic fabric and plan form. It retains its roof structure and a number of interior fittings which include an open fireplace with wooden bressumer and the remains of its screens passage.
Bibliography: Vernacular Architecture Group Report (Vernacular Architecture Group) Jan 1984.
Listing NGR: ST3269405596
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 430751
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in January, (1984)
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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