Chelston Farmhouse and Wall Linking Summerhouses on Facade, Continued South East
CHELSTON FARMHOUSE AND WALL LINKING SUMMERHOUSES ON FACADE, CONTINUED SOUTH EAST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295046
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Chelston Farmhouse and Wall Linking Summerhouses on Facade, Continued South East
- Statutory Address:
- CHELSTON FARMHOUSE AND WALL LINKING SUMMERHOUSES ON FACADE, CONTINUED SOUTH EAST
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- Date:
- 2003-03-31
- Reference:
- IOE01/09546/07
- Rights:
- © Mr John Chester. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295046
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Chelston Farmhouse and Wall Linking Summerhouses on Facade, Continued South East
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHELSTON FARMHOUSE AND WALL LINKING SUMMERHOUSES ON FACADE, CONTINUED SOUTH EAST
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:
- CHELSTON FARMHOUSE AND WALL LINKING SUMMERHOUSES ON FACADE, CONTINUED SOUTH EAST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- West Buckland
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 15362 21168
Details
ST12SE WEST BUCKLAND CP CHELSTON
5/202 Chelston Farmhouse and wall linking summerhouses on facade, continued south-east
II
Farmhouse. Mid C18 refronting of earlier dwelling when rear wing added, refenestrated C19. Red brick Flemish bond, random rubble plinth with course of dressed lias on facade, plinth higher on returns, steeply pitched asbestos slate roof, coped verges with kneelers, brick stacks gable ends and to right of cross passage. L-plan: 3-cell and cross passage with kitchen wing at rear, 2 symmetrical summerhouses abutting facade, linked by boundary wall continued south-west. Two storeys, 4 bays; 3-light leaded wooden casements first floor, ground floor 3-light mullioned and transomed wooden casements, leaded C20 replacement to right of entrance, C19 studded plank door, wooden piers supporting lead roofed wooden porch, Two windows in gable ends lighting attics; 2-bay wing at rear, probable C18 studded plank door at junction with main block, no butt joint in brick work. Summerhouses; red brick, monopitch slate roofs, concealed by parapet with semicircular headed blind niches on facades, interiors rendered with pair of blind niches. Low red brick wall linking summerhouses continued for about 20 m as chert random rubble wall with upper courses of brick work, coping of bricks set on end.
Listing NGR: ST1536221168
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 271144
- 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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