Howley Farmhouse
HOWLEY FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249442
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Howley Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HOWLEY FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249442
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Howley Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOWLEY 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:
- HOWLEY FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitestaunton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 26476 09444
Details
ST20NE WHITESTAUNTON CP HOWLEY
7/131 Howley Farmhouse (formerly listed as Brown's Farm House) 4.2.58
GV II
Farmhouse. Possibly C16, ceiled C17, refenestrated early C19. Random rubble local stone, roughcast on fling, rendered west end, thatched roof, brick stack left gable end, stone stack centre right, external roughcast stack north gable end of wing with rebuilt brick top, Plan: open hall house facing north celled to 2-cell and cross passage, 'L'-plan addition west end, Two storeys, 2:1:1 bays, eaves line rises over central bay, mostly early C19 leaded iron casements, 2-light over entrance 4-light to right, 3-light in gable end of wing and 3-light end biy right, ground floor 2-light left, 5-panel door with tiff gabled porch, 4-light window right under wooden lintel with course of brickwork below, re-entrant angle of wing with blocked door- way, blocked opening above and 3-light leaded iron casement ground floor right, gable end unlit, C20 greenhouse in west re-entrant angle, entrance to kitchen right and another window beyond. Interior: partially seen. Through passage with very steep winder wooden stair rising left beside entrance, shouldered doorframe adjoining in load bearing wall, east end room with chamfered lintel to gable end fireplace, empty bay in south-east corner; to right of through passage, former kitchen with bacon curing chamber to right of fireplace with chamfered lintel: road beyond unseen with inserted corridor linking present featureless kitchen. Upper storey not seen.
Listing NGR: ST2647609444
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 431573
- 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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