Meare Court Farmhouse

Meare Court Farmhouse, Meare Green, Wrantage, Taunton, TA3 6DA

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1344544
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1955
List Entry Name:: Meare Court Farmhouse
Statutory Address:: Meare Court Farmhouse, Meare Green, Wrantage, Taunton, TA3 6DA

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1344544
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1955
List Entry Name:: Meare Court Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:: Meare Court Farmhouse, Meare Green, Wrantage, Taunton, TA3 6DA

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Meare Court Farmhouse, Meare Green, Wrantage, Taunton, TA3 6DA

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: West Hatch
National Grid Reference:: ST 29748 21903

Details

ST22SE 5/148

WEST HATCH CP MEARE GREEN Meare Court Farmhouse

25.2.55

II

Farmhouse, now two dwellings. C17, enlarged possibly C18, altered mid C20. Blue lias random rubble, quoins west end, steeply pitched slate roof, half hipped triple Roman tiled wing, coped verges south gable end, brick stacks rebuilt east gable end and south, roughcast west gable end with offsets. T-plan, main block two-cell with inserted cross passage.

North front: two storeys with attic, single storey two-bay east wing, main block two 12-pane sash windows to left, right half of facade unlit, ground floor 20-pane sash window to left of C20 gabled porch entered on return; east wing 16-pane sashes flanking central C20 many-paned door; long rear wing, double Roman tiles, three bays, refenestrated mid C20.

Interior not seen, said to contain nine-panel moulded compartment ceiling at west end of main block, now with inserted cross passage, panelled east room with semi-circular headed niche flanking the fireplace, the attic said to be divided by a rough elm board partition with a door made from two planks set in a depressed four-centred arch head frame; south wing has step and runout stops to chamfered beams, otherwise much altered. (VAG report, unpublished SRO, 1975).

Listing NGR: ST2974821903

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 270937
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, (1975)

Legal

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