Lower Clayhanger Farmhouse
LOWER CLAYHANGER FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1277898
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Clayhanger Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER CLAYHANGER FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/00035/33
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1277898
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Clayhanger Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER CLAYHANGER 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:
- LOWER CLAYHANGER FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Combe St. Nicholas
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 31720 11329
Details
ST31SW COMBE ST NICHOLAS CP CLAYHANGER
6/52 Lower Clayhanger Farmhouse
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GV II
Farmhouse. Possibly C16, refenestrated C17, re-roofed early C19 and east gable end refaced, west gable end rebuilt late C20. Roughcast over rubble, east gable end with dressed and coursed chert and local limestone, slate roof with doable Roman tiles on shallower pitch rear span and to wing, decorative ridge tiles, roughcast stacks gable ends and to left of entrance, stone stack at south end of wing, 'U'-plan: 3 cell and cross passage facing south, north-west wing, later south-west addition. Two storeys, 5 bays, all Ham stone mullioned windows, first floor three 3-light ovolo moulded mullioned windows with hood moulds touching eaves, one 3-light hollow chamfered window set below eaves with hoodmould, end bay right ovolo moulded without hoodmould set below eaves, ground floor left two 3-light and one 4-light ovolo moulded mullioned window separated by stepped buttress with continuous hoodmould, raking buttresses flanking plank door, 4-light ovolo moulded window end bay right with hoodmould, raking buttress. Left return C20 windows in gable end, 2-bay wing with 2-light windows first floor, 4-light ovolo moulded ground floor left, right hollow chamfer with inserted door, another 4-light ovolo moulded window first floor north gable end. Interior not seen: said to contain depressed 4-centred arch head to doorway between through passage and kitchen, latter with bread oven and iron door by Wightman and Denning of Chard, blocked 3-light octagonal wooden mullioned window in rear wall obscured by inserted straight stair. Peaked head to rear doorway from through passage. Curved head to doorway from through passage to hall. Beams with runout stops. Early C19 tusk tenoned purlin roof. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, l978).
Listing NGR: ST3172011329
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 429992
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, (1978)
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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