Sock Dennis Farm House and Boundary Wall to North
SOCK DENNIS FARM HOUSE AND BOUNDARY WALL TO NORTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267299
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Sock Dennis Farm House and Boundary Wall to North
- Statutory Address:
- SOCK DENNIS FARM HOUSE AND BOUNDARY WALL TO NORTH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267299
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Sock Dennis Farm House and Boundary Wall to North
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOCK DENNIS FARM HOUSE AND BOUNDARY WALL TO NORTH
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:
- SOCK DENNIS FARM HOUSE AND BOUNDARY WALL TO NORTH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ilchester
- National Grid Reference:
- ST5167521328
Details
ST52SW
ILCHESTER CP
SOCK DENNIS
4/40
Sock Dennis Farm House and boundary wall to north
19.4.61
GV II
Detached farmhouse. Dated 1723, reshaped early C19. Local lias stone cut and squared. Ham stone and Portland stone
dressings; Welsh slate roofs between coped gables; ashlar chimney stacks with moulded caps. Double roof plan, two
storeys with attic, 3-bay south elevation. Outer bays have 16 pane sash windows, Ham stone cills, false keystoned lias
lintols over; to centre upper bay a 20-pane window with semi-circular head, matching lias stone arch; below is a
part-glazed door set in an open stone porch in Portland stone with Doric columns and pilasters, plain entablature, flat
roof. East gable plain; west gable has two 16-pane sash windows to attic, with keystoned Ham lintols; central lead
downpipe with stackhead dated 1723 and central closed stone porch with stone slate root, plain side windows and
Regency pattern 6-panel inner door, small C20 window to left. On north elevation, 2 bays, are 16-pane sash windows
above, and C18 hollow-chamfer mullioned windows in wave mould recesses, no labels, 3-centre arched lights with incised
spandrils. Interior not seen. About 4 metres north of house a 32 metre length of stone plank walling, with angled
return to barn (q.v) add to setting of house. Sock Dennis was an early separate settlement by at least the C13 (VCH,
Vol III, 1974).
Listing NGR: ST5167521328
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 418790
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1974)
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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