Higher Weare Farmhouse
HIGHER WEARE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268247
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Weare Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER WEARE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268247
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Weare Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER WEARE 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:
- HIGHER WEARE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cudworth
- National Grid Reference:
- ST3814310507
Details
ST 31 SE
1210/2/10005
CUDWORTH
Higher Weare Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse and adjoining barn. Probably C16, remodelled C17 and altered and extended circa late C18 or early C19. Cob rear wall, largely rebuilt in stone rubble, partly plastered. Corrugated sheet steel roof with gabled and half-hipped ends. Gable-end and axial stacks with brick shafts.
PLAN : 2 rooms and central through passage, both rooms heated from gable end fireplaces. Since the partition on the left side of the passage is a plank and muntin screen, the room to the right has a framed ceiling and there are said to be smoke-blackened roof timbers, it has been suggested that this ceiling and the passage were inserted into an open hall, and that the low end of the house to the right was subsumed into the barn adjoining at right angles on the right, which forms an overall L-shaped plan. Outshut added at rear [N] of house.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Almost symmetrical south front. C19 3 and 2-light casements with glazing bars; central doorway with 6-panel door, top panels glazed; plank door on right. Outshut at rear. Barn projecting at right angles on right [SE] with half-hipped end clad in corrugated sheet steel; opposing doorways on front and back and doorway to left on west front.
INTERIOR: Left [W] room has chamfered cross-beam and chamfered bressumer over blocked fireplace with large recess to left with small blocked window in gable end. Right-hand [E] room has chamfered framed ceiling and large fireplace with timber bressumer and oven; inserted straight staircase. Circa early C19 joinery including panelled doors and corner cupboard. Rear blades of two side-pegged jointed cruck trusses, some smoke-blackening to purlins and ridgepiece. Barn has staggered tenoned purlin roof trusses augmented by scissor braces; 2 bays with inserted loft.
Listing NGR: ST3814310507
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462070
- 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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