MANOR FARMHOUSE, GATEPIERS AND ABUTTING WALLS ENCLOSING FORECOURT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1295058
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1956
List Entry Name:: MANOR FARMHOUSE, GATEPIERS AND ABUTTING WALLS ENCLOSING FORECOURT
Statutory Address:: MANOR FARMHOUSE, GATEPIERS AND ABUTTING WALLS ENCLOSING FORECOURT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1295058
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1956
List Entry Name:: MANOR FARMHOUSE, GATEPIERS AND ABUTTING WALLS ENCLOSING FORECOURT
Statutory Address 1:: MANOR FARMHOUSE, GATEPIERS AND ABUTTING WALLS ENCLOSING FORECOURT

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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Location

Statutory Address:: MANOR FARMHOUSE, GATEPIERS AND ABUTTING WALLS ENCLOSING FORECOURT

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wellington Without
National Grid Reference:: ST 09713 20949

Details

ST02SE WELLINGTON WITHOUT CP THORNE ST MARGARET VILLAGE

3/179 Manor Farmhouse, gatepiers and abutting walls enclosing forecourt (formerly listed in Thorne St Margaret CP) 25.1.51

GV II

Farmhouse, gatepiers and wall enclosing forecourt. Farmhouse. Early C16, west wing and porch added C17, stable wing and internal alterations and gatepiers C18, further internal alterations early C19, casements renewed late C20. Red sandstone random rubble, partially rendered, porch probably timber framed, bitumen covered slate roof, corrugated iron on east side east wing, stone stacks marking end of original building right, to left of porch, and external stone stack left gable end masked by wing. U-plan facing roughly south; main block L-plan, lower end with room at rear, hall and inner room to left of porch divided by small room created from stud and plank screens now entered by inserted C20 door on facade, 2-cell and cross passage east wing, west wing stables linked to house by earlier addition, forecourt closed by wall with gatepiers. Two storeys, 2:1:1:1 bays; first floor left cruciform window, 4-light windows flanking full height gabled porch, 3-light casement right of end stack, ground floor left inserted C20 door, C20 casements below concrete lintels flanking porch, C20 door right of end stack, porch hung with slates cut in shapes of playing card suits, square headed moulded outer and inner doorways, former with additional C19 moulding. West wing: 3 bays with large raking buttresses, square headed doorways lit on rear elevation with wooden mullioned windows, partially seen. East wing: 2 window front, central door, C17 4-light ovolo moulded windows right on upper and lower floors. Interior of farmhouse not seen: said to contain evidence that lower end largely rebuilt C19, hall and parlour with moulding beams, lintel to hall fireplace and on exterior of stud and panel partitions that form small room between; stair turret originally opened out of hall. Four pairs of jointed cruck trusses with fifth concealed in partition of small room. West wing interior: extensive remains of 2 stud and panel screens to cross passage, chamfered beams with scroll stops, scroll stops also on doorway lintel and to chamfers on screen; evidence that stair once rose beside fireplace, remains of jointed cruck roof. Gate piers. Early C18, red brick, moulded plinth, cement cap surmounted by ball finial. Random rubble wall swept down with brick coping, returned to wings. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, February 1981).

Listing NGR: ST0971320949

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Legacy System number:: 271135
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in February, (1981)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.