Orchard House and Vine House
ORCHARD HOUSE, ORCHARD LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281944
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard House and Vine House
- Statutory Address:
- ORCHARD HOUSE, ORCHARD LANE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/12354/03
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281944
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard House and Vine House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ORCHARD HOUSE, ORCHARD LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- VINE HOUSE, ORCHARD 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:
- ORCHARD HOUSE, ORCHARD LANE
- Statutory Address:
- VINE HOUSE, ORCHARD LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Crewkerne
- National Grid Reference:
- ST4425509797
Details
CREWKERNE
ST4409 ORCHARD LANE
876-1/7/149 (West side)
06/09/74 Orchard House and Vine House
(Formerly Listed as:
ORCHARD LANE
Orchard House)
II
House, now 2 dwellings. C16 or C17 and early C19.
MATERIALS: coursed and squared Ham Hill stone, slate roof with
stepped stone coping and rendered stacks to gable ends and
left-of-centre of ridge.
PLAN: 3-unit through-passage plan with rear right wing. The
right-hand range and the rear wing are now another dwelling
called Vine House.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics; 4-window range. Windows are
C19. The first floor has flat gauged stone arches over 2 tall
3-light casements to the left and wooden lintels to horned
6/6-pane sashes to the right. The ground floor has an 8/8-pane
sash to the far left, a large C20 replaced 3-light leaded
casement to inside left and a c1840 doorcase with
key-patterned tops to panelled pilasters and a moulded
cornice; the door has 5-panels, one horizontal to the middle,
all with C19 bolection moulding and raised panels with cut-out
corners; ground-floor windows to the right. The rear wing is
trapezoid with the gable end canted to the shape of the lane
to the rear.
INTERIOR: the room to the left has a chamfered axial beam; the
C19 staircase to the rear left is closed string with stick
balusters, stepped and swept pine rail and turned newel; the
wall to the right of the door is 2 metres thick with a C20
fireplace in the central room, probably a former open
fireplace; this room has oak floorboards, an early C19 reeded
cornice and elliptical arches flanking the fireplace. The door
to the attic stairs at the left end is C17 with H hinges, the
winding stairs and attic floorboards are oak; the plastered
and rounded top of the ridge stack remains; early C18 small
square hatch giving onto the eaves space has one raised and
fielded panel; the wide front door has raised and fielded
panelling to the back and could be remodelled early C18. The
rear right wing has a stone-flagged floor and a chamfered
cross beam.
Listing NGR: ST4425509797
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390426
- 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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