Knowlerock Farmhouse
KNOWLEROCK FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252201
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Knowlerock Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- KNOWLEROCK FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252201
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Knowlerock Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- KNOWLEROCK 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:
- KNOWLEROCK FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shepton Montague
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 70374 31229
Details
SHEPTON MONTAGUE CP ST73SW 6/280 Knowlerock Farmhouse II
Farmhouse. C17 origins. Local stone rubble with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with gable overhangs; brick chimney stacks. Originally cruciform plan; 2 storeys with attic, single bay each face. East elevation now 4 bays, bay 2 projecting and bay 4 a C20 extension with plain clay tile roof. Horizontal bar casement windows except to upper bay 2, which is a 3-light reserve chamfer window without label, and to upper bay 3, a similar window with label and early leaded lights; segmental arched doorway cut into lower bay 3, part of label to former winow surviving. Further reserve chamfer windows to projection at rear, 2-light to first floor and single light to attic, this last with vertical iron bars. Inside large plain chamfered camber arched fireplace to North room, and fireplace with bowed timber arch in South room; collar truss roof frame, collars half-scarfed and bolted, purlins tenoned. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, 1972).
Listing NGR: ST7037431229
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 434678
- 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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