Rugbourne Farmhouse and Attached Garden Wall and Gate Piers
RUGBOURNE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL AND GATE PIERS, BUNGAY'S HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1320758
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Rugbourne Farmhouse and Attached Garden Wall and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address:
- RUGBOURNE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL AND GATE PIERS, BUNGAY'S HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1320758
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Rugbourne Farmhouse and Attached Garden Wall and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- RUGBOURNE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL AND GATE PIERS, BUNGAY'S HILL
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:
- RUGBOURNE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL AND GATE PIERS, BUNGAY'S HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- High Littleton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 65068 58309
Details
ST 65 NE HIGH LITTLETON BUNGAY'S HILL (north side)
7/68 Rugbourne Farmhouse and attached 21.9.60 garden wall and gate piers (formerly listed as Rugbourne Farmhouse)
11 Farmhouse. Late C17. Squared and coursed rubble with flush freestone quoins, stone openings, copings and double Roman tile roof. South east front of 3 storeys, 5 windows. Ground floor windows are 2-light ovolo mullions with C19 casements, first floor has 3 central cross mullions with 2-light ovolo mullions at either end, upper floor has 2-light ovolo mullions all blocked. Segmental-headed and keyed central doorway with moulded architrave and C19 plank door. C19 ironwork porch. Continuous dripmoulds at 1st and 2nd floor levels. Double span roof with end stone stacks to south east, reconstituted stone stacks to rear. Side walls have keyed oculi to loft space and some large window openings with keyed heads and straight cornices: some blocked, others with 6 pane sashes. Interior. Ground floor left hand room has a contemporary compartmented plaster ceiling of 4 panels with central roundels and corner foliage sprays. Garden forecourt has rubble walls with dressed stone copings and plain gate piers, square on plan, with moulded caps. William Smith the 'Father of British Geology'and Surveyor to the Somerset Coal Canal Company lodged here 1792-1795 . (R.D. Reid, Some Buildings of Mendip, 1979).
Listing NGR: ST6506858309
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 32808
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Reid, R D, Some Buildings of Mendip, (1979)
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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