Moorhays Farmhouse
MOORHAYS FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307816
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Moorhays Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MOORHAYS FARMHOUSE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/06323/32
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307816
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Moorhays Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOORHAYS 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:
- MOORHAYS FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Charlton Musgrove
- National Grid Reference:
- ST6993830147
Details
ST63SE
5/223
CHARLTON MUSGROVE CP
Moorhays Farmhouse
24.3.61
II
Farmhouse. c1600 and later. Local stone cut and squared with ashlar dressings; plain clay tile roof with coved East gable and hipped to West; brick and stone chimney stacks. 2 storeys with attic; 6 bays North elevation, with circular plan turret on North East corner having plain clay tile roof over stone slate base courses. String courses of 2 patterns, stepped in places: mostly wood or steel casement windows of C20 under exposed lintels, but in gables over bays 3 and 6 a blocked and a timber reserve-chamfered mullioned 2-light windows; C18 casements with leaded panes lower bay 4 and upper bay 6; cambered arched doorway bay-5 under C20 tiled hood; C20 stone tiled porch to bay 2; old pump in wood box between bays 3 and 4. On both gable ends are further reserve chamfered mullioned windows at each level, with 2 also in the West bay of South elevation, and one blocked in corner. Projecting extension on South West turner of late C18, with 12-pane sash windows below and 9-pane sashes above.
Interior not seen, but VAG report indicates much alteration and early plan confused; house may have been a manor originally (VAG Report, Unpublished SRO, February
1982).
Listing NGR: ST6993830147
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261689
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in February, (1982)
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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