Chicks Farmhouse With the Attached Front Boundary Railings
CHICKS FARMHOUSE WITH THE ATTACHED FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307543
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Chicks Farmhouse With the Attached Front Boundary Railings
- Statutory Address:
- CHICKS FARMHOUSE WITH THE ATTACHED FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307543
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Chicks Farmhouse With the Attached Front Boundary Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHICKS FARMHOUSE WITH THE ATTACHED FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, HIGH STREET
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:
- CHICKS FARMHOUSE WITH THE ATTACHED FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- West Coker
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 52055 13787
Details
WEST COKER CP HIGH STREET (North side) ST5213 10/287 Chicks Farmhouse with the attached front boundary railings (farmhouse formerly listed as Manor Farmhouse) 19.4.61 GV II
Farmhouse. C17 with later modifications. Smooth rendered with incised false ashlar joints over Ham stone ashlar plinth, Ham stone dressings; Cornish slate roof between stepped coped gables, with double projecting gables to rear, East gable having gabletted finial; brick end and intermediate chimney stacks. 2-storeys, 4-bays. Ovolo mould mullioned windows, those to ground floor in stone with labels, 3-lights except bay-4 (2-lights); above in timber, all 2-lights; vertical iron bars to windows. Entrance on East side in rear extension, protected by projecting ashlar stone flat roofed porch with cambered arched openings to front and sides. Interior not seen. 1 metre in front of house, wrought iron railings on low stone kerb base; rails have pinched collars and pyramidal points; columns brace, with urn finials; returns to house at both ends - important part of setting to house, on a narrow road. The alternative name dates from c1873, when one of the Moore family, owners of this Farmhouse for generations, purchased West Coker Manor. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, October 1972).
Listing NGR: ST5205513787
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263845
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in October, (1972)
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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