Farleigh Cottage Tower House
FARLEIGH COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288553
- Date first listed:
- 14-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Farleigh Cottage Tower House
- Statutory Address:
- FARLEIGH COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288553
- Date first listed:
- 14-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Farleigh Cottage Tower House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FARLEIGH COTTAGE
- Statutory Address 2:
- TOWER HOUSE
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:
- FARLEIGH COTTAGE
- Statutory Address:
- TOWER HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Claverton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 78865 63911
Details
ST 76 SE CLAVERTON 7/37 Tower House and Farleigh Cottage
G.V. II
Pair of cottages possibly estate cottages or almshouses. Mid - late C19. Coursed rubble with freestone dressings; decorative tiled roofs. The dominant feature is the tower at the north end: 3 stages with a pyramidal roof and ashlar quoins; plain string courses divide the stages, the upper one rests on square corbels; single light windows to lower stages, that on the second floor has a cusped ogee head, and tripartite window to top stage but the outer parts are blank. To the south is the main part of the cottages: a single storey and attics in 3 steep and narrow stone dormers with fleur-de-lys finials; ashlar stacks with cornice; the roof continues over the eaves and is supported on 5 chamfered stone piers; single and 2-light casement windows and 2 plank doors; single bay C20 extension at right.
Listing NGR: ST7886763908
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 399285
- 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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