Woodcombe Farmhouse
WOODCOMBE FARMHOUSE, WOODCOMBE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279934
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Woodcombe Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WOODCOMBE FARMHOUSE, WOODCOMBE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279934
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Woodcombe Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOODCOMBE FARMHOUSE, WOODCOMBE LANE
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:
- WOODCOMBE FARMHOUSE, WOODCOMBE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Minehead
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 95401 46536
Details
MINEHEAD
SS94NE WOODCOMBE LANE 900-1/1/116 (East side) 28/10/76 Woodcombe Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse, now a house. C17, remodelled early C19 and c1990. Painted roughcast over rubblestone, crested slate roof hipped to the left with brick stack to right gable end. 3-unit plan. 2 storeys; 4-window range. C20 three-light casement windows, door and hood. INTERIOR remodelled c1990. HISTORY: John Atkins at Higher Woodcombe had 21 acres newly enclosed in 1822. Woodcombe was mentioned in the C14. (Binding H: Minehead: A New History: Minehead: 1977-: 202).
Listing NGR: SS9540146536
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391273
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Binding, H, Minehead A New History, (1977), 202
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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