FORDHAY HOUSE, WITH WELL 3 METRES TO SOUTH

FORDHAY HOUSE, WITH WELL 3 METRES TO SOUTH, FORDHAY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1307948
Date first listed:: 19-Apr-1961
List Entry Name:: FORDHAY HOUSE, WITH WELL 3 METRES TO SOUTH
Statutory Address:: FORDHAY HOUSE, WITH WELL 3 METRES TO SOUTH, FORDHAY

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Date:: 2004-05-27
Reference:: IOE01/12479/04
Rights:: © Mr Michael Perry. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1307948
Date first listed:: 19-Apr-1961
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: FORDHAY HOUSE, WITH WELL 3 METRES TO SOUTH
Statutory Address 1:: FORDHAY HOUSE, WITH WELL 3 METRES TO SOUTH, FORDHAY

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: FORDHAY HOUSE, WITH WELL 3 METRES TO SOUTH, FORDHAY

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: East Chinnock
National Grid Reference:: ST 49530 12994

Details

ST41SE EAST CHINNOCK CP FORDHAY (East side)

3/66 Fordhay House, with well 3 metres to South (Fordhay House formerly listed) 19.4.61

GV II

House. Dated 1690. Local stone rubble coursed, Has stone dressings; Welsh slate between coped gables; brick end chimney stacks to main block, and intermediate stack to extension. 2-storeys, 3-bays-with later extensions Eastwards. Hollow chamfer mullioned windows with timber casement infills under labels, 3-light to bays 1 and 3 and 2-light to bay 2, ground floor; above casement windows under exposed timber lintels: old boarded entrance door in plain opening between bays-2 and 3, protected by double hipped lead roofed porch of C19, resting on 4 cast-iron columns. Extension of 3-bays, 2-bays using larger stones, divided by coped gable to East gable; C19 casement windows segmental arched heads below and heavy stone lintels above. On East kneeler gable stone, main block is incised the initial K or R and date 1690. On West, roadside, wall a mounting block and steps. Formerly an inn, according to local tradition, 3 metres South of first extension a well, about 11 metres down to water; old random stone walls below ground, C20 wall above ground.

Listing NGR: ST4953012994

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Legacy System number:: 263624
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.