COMESBURY FARMHOUSE AND WALLS ENCLOSING FORECOURT ON SOUTH FRONT WITH MOUNTING BLOCK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1277977
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:: COMESBURY FARMHOUSE AND WALLS ENCLOSING FORECOURT ON SOUTH FRONT WITH MOUNTING BLOCK
Statutory Address:: COMESBURY FARMHOUSE AND WALLS ENCLOSING FORECOURT ON SOUTH FRONT WITH MOUNTING BLOCK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1277977
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1958
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: COMESBURY FARMHOUSE AND WALLS ENCLOSING FORECOURT ON SOUTH FRONT WITH MOUNTING BLOCK
Statutory Address 1:: COMESBURY FARMHOUSE AND WALLS ENCLOSING FORECOURT ON SOUTH FRONT WITH MOUNTING BLOCK

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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Location

Statutory Address:: COMESBURY FARMHOUSE AND WALLS ENCLOSING FORECOURT ON SOUTH FRONT WITH MOUNTING BLOCK

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Buckland St. Mary
National Grid Reference:: ST 27137 12937

Details

ST21SE BUCKLAND ST MARY CP -

Combesbury Farmhouse 5/30 (formerly listed as Higher Combesbury Farm House) and walls enclosing forecourt on south. front with mounting block 4.2.58

GV II

Farmhouse,C17, Local stone random rubble. Ham stone dressings, thatched roof, coped verges, brick stack right gable end, store left and to right of entrance, also gable end of rear wing. 'L'-plant 3-cell and cross passage with unheated inner room; stair turret opening out of hall, kitchen wing it rear added soon after. Two storeys, 4 bays, first floor 3-light wooden caseents, ground flour left tiny Ham stone lancet; 4-light ovolo moulded mullioned window under hoodmould to left of entrance, similar 4- and 3-light to right, wide entrance with studded plank door, possibly C17. Left return gable end unlit, door to wing with C20 window to left, 2-light window above. Interior: timber-framed partition to left of through cassaqe, depressed 4- centred arch head doorframe to rear, similar right to hall and from hall to inner rood, chamfered beams with scroll stops, former kitchen to left of through passage with modern grate flanked by unidentified openings, possibly curing chamber left, kitchen at rear with bread oven; collar bead roof. Walls enclosing forecourt on south front with mounting block. Chert stone random rubble with flat Ham stone coping, about 1m high. Three step counting block abutting on foldyard side. A good example of a Somerset farmhouse. (VAG Reports, unpublished SO 1975,1978 and l979).

Listing NGR: ST2713712937

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 264084
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, (1979)
'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, (1975)
'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, (1978)

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