Hey Farmhouse
HEY FARMHOUSE, HOLVERT LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1307250
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Hey Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HEY FARMHOUSE, HOLVERT LANE
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- Date:
- 2005-08-09
- Reference:
- IOE01/14091/07
- Rights:
- © Mr John H. Sparkes. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1307250
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Hey Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HEY FARMHOUSE, HOLVERT LANE
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:
- HEY FARMHOUSE, HOLVERT LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Winsham
- National Grid Reference:
- ST3879306455
Details
WINSHAM CP HOLVERT LANE (North side)
ST30NE
4/110 Hey Farmhouse
4.2.58
- II*
Detached farmhouse. Circa 1500 and later. said to have been built as a grange to nearby Forde Abbey (Dorset). Local
stone rubble; Ham stone ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof between high coped gables suggesting former thatch; one
brick and one ashlar chimney stack. 'L'-plan; 2 storeys, 3-bay south elevation. Corner buttresses, angled on south-west
corner and square on south-east: hollow-chamfered mullioned windows in chamfered recesses, of 3, 4 and 4 lights to
ground floor and 2, 4 and 5 lights to first floor; the lower windows deepened; the windows to bay 1 have deeper and
more heavily moulded labels whereas the remainder are of the more usual C17 pattern: loft of lower bay 2 is a
projecting porch with a segmental-arched outer doorway and boarded inner door in a cambered-arched recess. Plain east
gable: extension to rear. The west gable has an angled buttress to each corner, a small squint window and a projecting
chimney with offsets. The rear elevation has, towards the west end, two 2-light cinquefoil cusped windows set under
deep square lintels, and, obscured by a late C20 extension, a further such window at ground floor level, and a
cambered-arched doorway. Internally. a 2-room plan to the front, kitchen wing to rear, and a stairway rising between
them. the entry to west room at front and back. but probably further east originally; west room has high 4-panel
ceiling with slightly cambered beams having hollow-step-ogee moulding, a modern fireplace set within the major west
gable fireplace; east room has 3 crossbeams,2 cambered and one flat, this last probably the head of the passage
screen; cambered arched fireplace in rear wall backing onto the kitchen fireplace, now with inserted grate but known to
have had a bread oven: cellar below: first floor west room has 2 fireplaces, both with flat chamfered lintels, of stone
to west and of timber to the larger north fireplace. Roof to wing probably Cl9, of reused timber, but main roof has
arch-braced collar beam trusses, mostly closed at some time, with 3 rows purlins each side and windbraced, the east end
differing in detail from west. Previous description in 1958 lists speaks of possible extension further east, but no
obvious indication of this. (YAG Report, unpublished SRO, undated).
Listing NGR: ST3879306455
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262234
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, ()
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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