CATFORD FARMHOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1263863
Date first listed:: 04-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: CATFORD FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: CATFORD FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1263863
Date first listed:: 04-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: CATFORD FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: CATFORD 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:: CATFORD 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 02176 29739

Details

ST02NW HUISH CHAMPFLOWER CP -

11/89 Catford Farmhouse -

GV II

Shown on OS map as Catford West. Farmhouse subsequently converted to 2 cottages, now single dwelling. Possibly C16 long house, altered and enlarged C17, date 1679 said to be visible in roof space, altered subsequently, refenestrated and restored 1985. Rendered over rubble and cob, slate roof, roughcast stacks gable ends, to left of entrance and between first and second bays left. Plan complex, 4-cell with cross passage opening into C17 staircase wing, barn (qv) abutting on facade between first and second bays left. Two storeys, 1:2:1 bays, all late C20 2 and 3-light wooden casements, entrance between first and second bays right, plank door, Interior: peaked doorrase to hall right and on opposite wall, moulded doorframe with ornate stops reset to staircase wing, evidence that earlier winder stair stood in angle of wall adjoining, chamfered lintel to cross passage fireplace, steeply chamfered lateral beams with step and runout stops, similar in narrow room adjoining to left, end room left featureless with inserted C19 staircase, Evidence of a blocked window opening on the exterior wall in the adjoining barn. Upper storey centre room left with unusual square headed moulded plasterwork surround to fireplace with Royal Coat of Arms above, on opposite wall concealed in roof space remains of plasterwork to barrel vault roof on cob wall; one jointed cruck truss visible. More plasterwork decoration above hall stack in end room right, said to carry the date 1679. The settlement is documented in the early Middle Ages. Formerly known as Catford Cottages. (VAG reports unpublished SRO, December 1977; VCH Somerset Vol V, 1985).

Listing NGR: ST0217629739

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 429466
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Dunning, R W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1985)
'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in December, (1977)

Legal

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