Church Farmhouse
CHURCH FARMHOUSE, TOWNSEND
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1300176
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH FARMHOUSE, TOWNSEND
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1300176
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH FARMHOUSE, TOWNSEND
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:
- CHURCH FARMHOUSE, TOWNSEND
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Pitton and Farley
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 21325 31528
Details
PITTON AND FARLEY TOWNSEND, Pitton So. 23 SW (east side) 7/136 Church Farmhouse II
Farmhouse. Early C17. Timber framed with brick infilling, thatched roof. Single storey and attic, 3 1/2 bays. Lobby entry plan with entrance, a boarded door, to left of centre bay. Framing of heavy scantling, 3 panels high, with corner braces, forming horizontal rectangles. Left half bay added late C17 in square framing. Iron casement windows of early C19. Three flush dormers. Roof half hipped to right and hipped over left extension. Left bays framed on rear, remainder replaced in brick. Interior has central brick and chalk stack, with oven to left room, projecting to rear, and cambered chamfered lintel. Stair against stack in lobby. Spine beams with step and scoop stops. Roof has raking struts to collars and clasped purlins, and windbraces to end trusses only. (RCHM survey)
Listing NGR: SU2130531504
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 320030
- 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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