Meadow Gate
MEADOW GATE, WEST FITZHEAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308160
- Date first listed:
- 04-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Meadow Gate
- Statutory Address:
- MEADOW GATE, WEST FITZHEAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308160
- Date first listed:
- 04-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Meadow Gate
- Statutory Address 1:
- MEADOW GATE, WEST FITZHEAD
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:
- MEADOW GATE, WEST FITZHEAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Fitzhead
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 11628 28634
Details
ST12NW FITZHEAD CP WEST FITZHEAD 6/118 Meadow Gate GV II House. Late C15, altered early Clb and early C20. Rendered over random rubble and cob, slate roof, stone stack right, brick stack above entrance. Open hall derivative, 3 cell lobby entry onto back to back fireplaces, facing South. 2-storeys, irregularly placed early C20 fenestration, first floor four 2-light casements and one 3-light end bay right, ground floor 2 and 3-light in outer bays, single storey slate roofed verandah carried on wooden piers covers centre, glazed entrance door with 2-light casement to right. Interior: room to right of entry 9 panel moulded compartment ceiling with inserted cross moulded beams and rafters behind, staircase turret on North side; room to right, remains of plaster frieze and plaster decoration in panel above fireplace. 5 pairs of jointed cruck trusses, originally an open hall house, ceiled early C16. (VAG Reports, unpublished SRO, November 1973 and September 1983).
Listing NGR: ST1162828634
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 270329
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in November, (1973)
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in September, (1983)
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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