Common Down Farmhouse
COMMON DOWN FARMHOUSE, COMMON DOWN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308118
- Date first listed:
- 04-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Common Down Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- COMMON DOWN FARMHOUSE, COMMON DOWN
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308118
- Date first listed:
- 04-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Common Down Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- COMMON DOWN FARMHOUSE, COMMON DOWN
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:
- COMMON DOWN FARMHOUSE, COMMON DOWN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Halse
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 13284 30070
Details
ST13SW HALSE CP COMMON DOWN
2/129 Common Down Farmhouse -
- II
Farmhouse. Late C16 - early C17, restored C20. Roughcast and painted rubble, thatched roof, brick stacks. 2 cell cross passage plan with extension to right. One and a half storeys, 4:2 bays; three dormer windows with 3-light casements, left-hand one with C17 ovolo moulded mullion windows, similar ground left 4-light, C20 4-light casement to right, 2-light opening outer bay right; four centred arch doorway with medieval style stud and plank door second bay left; raking buttress end left. Two bay extension to right, independently thatched, C20 casements with leaded panes, 2-light first floor, 3-light ground floor with C20 partially glazed porch with hipped thatched roof end bay right. Outshut at rear, enlarged in right-hand bay into a gabled 2 storey projection C20. Interior: stud and brick infill partition left of cross passage, four centred headed doorway, deeply chamfered beam with diamond stops, staircase bay to right of open fireplace.
Listing NGR: ST1328430070
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 270340
- 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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