Higher Farmhouse
HIGHER FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296177
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296177
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER FARMHOUSE
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:
- HIGHER FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chilton Cantelo
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 57018 22207
Details
ST52SE CHILTON CANTELO CP
4/18 Higher Farmhouse 19.4.61
- II
Farmhouse. Early C18, remodelled in 1826. Local stone cut and squared, with Ham stone doorways and plaque; Welsh slate roof between coped gables, stone chimney stacks. "T" plan, 2-storeys; West and North elevations of 3-bays, the former with a left-hand gable projection. Central doorway to both facades: that to West front having ionic capped plain pilasters with no base, and flat entablature, framing a 6-fielded panel door, top 2 panels glazed; that to North having a simple surround with flat projecting stone hood on console brackets: sash windows in plain openings with flat voussoired arches with false keystones, having 12-panes each on West and 16-panes each on North. One storey lean-to East of the North side, and on South, against the road, a lower 2-storey portion of C18; random stone with plain clay tile roof over 2 base courses stone slates; timber-framed windows, some with central iron bars; an old leaded window here and also in rear wall of main house; part of this wing still used for cider making. In hall "Bromes Head", a skull recorded by Collinson 1791, which has defied many attempts at burial. Part of the former Manor of Chilton Cantelo until 1958/59: presumably remodelled by John Old Goodford, Squire and High Sherriff of Somerset in 1816, died 1835. The date 1826 appears in a plaque over West entrance.
Listing NGR: ST5701822207
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262630
- 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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