Rectory Farmhouse and Rectory Farmhouse South

RECTORY FARMHOUSE AND RECTORY FARMHOUSE SOUTH, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1273246
Date first listed:
06-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:
Rectory Farmhouse and Rectory Farmhouse South
Statutory Address:
RECTORY FARMHOUSE AND RECTORY FARMHOUSE SOUTH, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1273246
Date first listed:
06-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:
Rectory Farmhouse and Rectory Farmhouse South
Statutory Address 1:
RECTORY FARMHOUSE AND RECTORY FARMHOUSE SOUTH, HIGH STREET

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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
RECTORY FARMHOUSE AND RECTORY FARMHOUSE SOUTH, HIGH STREET

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

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Queen Camel
National Grid Reference:
ST5964924492

Details

ST5924
8/124

QUEEN CAMEL CP
HIGH STREET (West side)

Rectory Farmhouse, and Rectory Farmhouse South

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GV
II

Detached farmhouse, now divided. C17 origins, modified. Local lias stone cut and squared, Ham stone dressings; double
Roman clay, tile roof between coped gables, with ball finial to south; brick chimney stacks. Two storeys, 5 bays
three-light windows, mostly horizontal bar casements, but upper bays 1 and 2 have small panes: all lower windows except
to bay 5 have timber lintols, this last having voussoired segmental-arched head; window to lower bay 3 offset to
balance door between bays 2 and 3, which is set in moulded 4-centre archway with incised spandrils and square label;
additional plain bay added north of bay 5, which itself is probably an addition. Interior not seen, but outer room of
farmhouse proper has a 9-bay chamfered bead ceiling, and to rear an ovolo-mould mullioned window and doorway. (VAG
report, unpublished SRO, 1977).


Listing NGR: ST5964924492

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
431125
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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