WEST COOMBE FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1263828
Date first listed:: 06-Apr-1969
List Entry Name:: WEST COOMBE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: WEST COOMBE FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1263828
Date first listed:: 06-Apr-1969
List Entry Name:: WEST COOMBE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: WEST COOMBE 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: WEST COOMBE FARMHOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Huish Champflower
National Grid Reference:: ST 03551 29530

Details

ST02NW HUISH CHAMPFLOWER CP -

ll/96 West Coombe Farmhouse

6.4.59

- II

Farmhouse. C17, alteration and enlargement with south-east and north-west additions dated 1711, mid C19 south-west wing added. Slobbered rubble with cob at rear, hipped slate roof with hipped wings on facade, rebuilt brick stack between second and third bays left, C19 brick stack right gable end. U-plan; originally 2-cell and cross passage with outshots at rear, enlarged with south-east wing, west gable end extended and south-west wing added, stair inserted at rear of through passage. Two storeys, 1:4:1 bays, first floor blind openings second bay left and end bay right. C19 cruciform windows, ground floor entrances in outer bays, second bay left and centre flanked by 2 early C18 wooden cruciform windows with leading left and right, C19 windows under wooden lintels, principal entrance with shell hood porch and flush panel door, to left C18 plank door with rectangular light above, stable door in wing, C20 door in right hand wing. North-west gable end at rear with datestone inscribed "RD RL 1711", possibly reset from a lure conspicuous position on the facade. Interior: to right of cross passasge, parlour with early C18 moulded plaster ceiling, panelled dado and shutters to window, unusual segmental headed shouldered surrounds to niche in rear wall and entrance to cross passage, shouldered chimney piece with egg and dart moulding, The bedroom above is entered via another shell hood porch and has a coved cornice. The study in the south-east wing has an Cl8 chimneypiece and panelled cupboards. Early C19 leaded iron casement visible in north-east wing. C19 timbers are visible in roof space. An interesting survival of an early C18 refurbishment. (VAG report, unpublished SRO, November 1976; Photograph in NMR).

Listing NGR: ST0355129530

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Legacy System number:: 429521
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in November, (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.