DRAKE'S FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1263731
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: DRAKE'S FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: DRAKE'S FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1263731
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: DRAKE'S FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: DRAKE'S 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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Location

Statutory Address:: DRAKE'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 29229 08593

Details

ST0NE WAMBROOK CP HIGHER WAMBROOK

7/119 Drake's Farmhouse - GV II

Farmhouse. C16, east gable end rebuilt and north-east wing added C19, enlarged north-west 1830s. Random rubble local stone, quoins in wing, thatched roof hipped to right, rebuilt C20 stack left gable ends, stone stack to left of entrance, brick stacks centre and gable end of wing. L-plan, 3-cell and cross passage with north-west wing fronting road. Two storeys, 4 bays, first floor C20 window left, 3-light and 3-light leaded iron casement, 2-light end bay right, ground floor left C20 window and inserted C20 French windows, 4-light hollow chamfer Ham stone mullioned window with hood mould, C20 door with side light, 3-light window below wooden lintel right. Right return, 2 storeys, 3 bays, dressed stone voussoirs to all window openings, C20 wooden windows end bay right, others leaded with wooden Tudor arch head frames, 2- and 3- light first floor, ground floor 2- and 3- light mulioned and transomed, Single storey lean-to at gable end containing postal wall box (q.v.). Interior: partially sighted, plink and muntin screen chamfered on both sides to right of through passage; hall is said to contain a large fireplace with stair beside it, chamfered beams with step and runout stops and a timber framed partition to inner room with heavy doorframe, Upper storey, above the hall is said to have been a fireplace with chamfered lintel and scroll stops with 2 jointed cruck trusses forming a 4-bay roof. In 1588 the manor of Wambrook was sold to the Drake brothers of London who then enfranchised most of the tenants land, including Drake's House, now Farm, in 1619. (VCH Vol IV,1978;VAG Report, unpublished SRO, February l978).

Listing NGR: ST2922908593

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Legacy System number:: 431560
Legacy System:: LBS

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'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in February, (1978)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.