STOFORD FARMHOUSE AND YATFORD COTTAGE

STOFORD FARMHOUSE, BROADWAY STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1278013
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:: STOFORD FARMHOUSE AND YATFORD COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: STOFORD FARMHOUSE, BROADWAY STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1278013
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1958
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: STOFORD FARMHOUSE AND YATFORD COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: STOFORD FARMHOUSE, BROADWAY STREET
Statutory Address 2:: YATFORD COTTAGE, BROADWAY STREET

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: STOFORD FARMHOUSE, BROADWAY STREET
Statutory Address:: YATFORD COTTAGE, BROADWAY STREET

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Broadway
National Grid Reference:: ST3206515437

Details

ST3215 BROADWAY CP BROADWAY STREET (north side) 11/6 Stoford Farmhouse and Yatford Cottage (formerly Listed as Stoford Farm House or Yatford Farm House) 4.2.58

- II

Farmhouse, now 2 dwellings. C16-C17, faced in brick late C18-early C19, rear wing refenestration C20. Random rubble faced with red brick with purple header, Flemish bond, exposed on east front of wing and roughcast at north end, squared and coursed Ham stone plinth, thatched roof with tiled rear wine. stone stack right gable end, brick stacks to left of main entrance, centre and to left of subsidiary entrance. 'L'-plan: 5-cell and cross passage facing south with dairv wing to north-east. Two storeys, 4:1 bays, all C19 leaded wooden casements, 3- and 4-light first floor, ground floor under brick voussoirs, 4-light left flanking wooden door, two 4-light casement to right. Right return: unlit gable end, 1:3 bays with large stepped buttress at junction with dairy wing. Interior not seen. Said to contain kitchen to right of through passage that links dairy wing, kitchen with chamfered wooden lintel and chamfered stone jambs to fireplace originally with curing chamber on front will, hall with 8-panel compartment ceiling with moulded beams and fireplace with moulded stone iambs and hollow chamfered lintel, inner room with chamfered beads and step and runout stops, possibly once containing a back to back fireplace since rebuilt, room beyond with 4-panel compartment ceiling, stairs inserted in through passage, chamfered bears in room beyond. Two pairs of jointed cruck trusses said to be visible over inner room and second hall with large wooden doorframe with arched head. It is thought that the house was always intended to contain 2 families, the farmer and family at East end and grandparents at west end. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO. August 1973).

Listing NGR: ST3206515437

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Legacy System number:: 264061
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in August, (1973)

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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.