Coursley Farmhouse

COURSLEY FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1344458
Date first listed:
04-May-1984
List Entry Name:
Coursley Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
COURSLEY FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1344458
Date first listed:
04-May-1984
List Entry Name:
Coursley Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
COURSLEY 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
COURSLEY FARMHOUSE

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

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Lydeard St. Lawrence
National Grid Reference:
ST 14080 33070

Details

ST13SW LYDEARD ST LAWRENCE CP

COURSLEY

2/163 Coursley Farahouse -

- II

Farmhouse. C16, altered C17. Red sandstone random rubble masonry, thatched roof hipped to left, C20 brick stack right with projection on gabled end (blocked internally), rendered stack right of cross passage and at rear of left-hand bay. Open hall derivative, now 3-cell and cross passage. 2-storeys, 4-bays; C19 3-light leaded casements, C20 casement to left of entrance, entrance approached by flight of 5 steps, vertical buttress right, raking buttress end right. Interior: flag stone cross passage, chamfered beams with stops to right, doorway left, originally 4-centred arch with double roll moulding, now square headed but apex of arch still visible, similar evidence of double roll moulding on lintel of fireplace set against cross passage, lintel subsequently heightened. 16 panel hollow chamfered compartment ceiling, stair set against rear wall, probably added when open hall ceiled. Muntin and plaster partition right; jointed cruck roof. Relatively unaltered and good example of a traditional farmhouse.

Listing NGR: ST1408033070

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
270374
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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