Dennett's Farmhouse
DENNETT'S FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250733
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Dennett's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- DENNETT'S FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250733
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Dennett's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- DENNETT'S FARMHOUSE
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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:
- DENNETT'S FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wambrook
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 29754 07723
Details
ST20NE WAMBROOK CP WAMBROOK VILLAGE
7/130 Dennett's Farmhouse
4.2.58
- II
Shown on OS Dinnett's Farmhouse. Farmhouse.C16, possibly earlier, altered C17 and enlarged, refenestrated early C19. Random rubble chert stone with Plinth, plain clay tile roof, brick stack south-west gable end, roughcast stack with upper courses of brickwork to right of entrance, damaged stone stack gable end of north-west wing at rear. Plan: possibly open hall house celled to 4-cell and cross passage with kitchen addition at rear. Two storeys, 4 bays, 3- and 2-light leaded iron casements some with quadrant stays, around floor window openings under wooden lintels, two 3- light windows flanking central plank door, opening infilled to left, small raking buttress to right. Rear elevation: similar 3-light windows, Cl7 door to rear of through passage, Cl9 door with decorative hinges to kitchen wing. Interior: said to contain evidence of jointed cruel: truss roof. Central stack with inserted modern grate backing onto through passage, chamfered cross bears without stops, one supported on a post partly set in front wall with a corbel, straight stair rising against rear wall in place of earlier winder stair, timber-framed partition with shaped head doorway dividing this room from north-east gable end rood. South-west gable end room with plank screen and chamfered lintel to fireplace partially removed. The farmhouse was divided into dwellings at sole stage, and the north-east gable end room is said to have been a cheeseroom. The farm's nave derives from the owners, the Dinnett family. (VCH Vol IV, 1974; VAG Report, unpublished SRO, January 1976).
Listing NGR: ST2975407723
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 431572
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1974)
Vernacular Architecture Group in January, (1976)
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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