Ash Farmhouse
ASH FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296227
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Ash Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ASH FARMHOUSE
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- Date:
- 2000-09-02
- Reference:
- IOE01/02508/29
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296227
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Ash Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ASH 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:
- ASH FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Porlock
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 84237 47815
Details
_ SS84NW PORLOCK CP 2/42 Ash Farmhouse
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- II
Farmhouse. C16-C17, altered late C19-early C20. Roughcast over rubble and cob, slate roofs, large lateral stack to right of entrance with bread oven projection, lateral stack end bay left and rising from eaves on wing. L-plan: possible longhouse extended subsequently to 3-cell and cross passage with addition north end, north-east farmbuildings abutting, and south-east wing. One and a half storeys, 2:2 bays, all early C20 casements, 2 dormers left, one right flanking lateral stack, ground floor single storey addition left of entrance beside stack, 2 windows under wooden lintels to right; C19 extension of loft over byre, 3 semi-circular headed openings, central one larger. South gable end, irregular plinth indicating rebuilding of possible agricultural end of farmhouse. Interior: chamfered beams with scroll stops to central room heated by lateral stack, modern grate, very wide through passage now blocked by inserted stair, original cob wall visible in roof space, trusses renewed early C20, part of jointed cruck visible. This is generally believed to be the farm at which Samuel Taylor Coleridge was living when his composition of Kubla Khan was interrupted by the visit from 'the man from Porlock".
Listing NGR: SS8423747815
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265455
- 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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