Jessamine House and Long Cottage
Jessamine House and Long Cottage, Stoke St. Gregory, Taunton, TA3 6EJ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344600
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Jessamine House and Long Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- Jessamine House and Long Cottage, Stoke St. Gregory, Taunton, TA3 6EJ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344600
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Jessamine House and Long Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- Jessamine House and Long Cottage, Stoke St. Gregory, Taunton, TA3 6EJ
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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:
- Jessamine House and Long Cottage, Stoke St. Gregory, Taunton, TA3 6EJ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stoke St. Gregory
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 34776 27142
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 February 2024 to update the name and to reformat the text to current standards
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STOKE ST GREGORY CP
STOKE ST GREGORY VILLAGE
Jessamine House and Long Cottage
(Formerly listed as Jessamine House and house adjoining to east)
II
Cottage with farmbuildings, now two dwellings. Late medieval, ceiled C16, farmbuilding possibly C18, altered extended and roof raised C20. Roughcast over rubble and cob, east gable end said to have been rebuilt in brick, farmbuilding said to be roughcast over brick with upper courses of rubble, (generally the reverse), double Roman tiled roof extended as
catslide over porch, decorative ridge tiles, brick stacks gable ends of both ranges and brick stack to left of entrance.
L-plan: open hall house ceiled to three-cell and cross passage, lean-to west gable end, farmbuilding abutting north-west porch in angle. One and a half storeys, three- and two-light dormers rising below eaves left of entrance, ground floor two three-light casements left, C20 porch with catslide roof and C20 door, to right former farmbuilding lit only by small semi-circular headed window ground floor right, single storey lean-to addition north gable end. South front of Jessamine House much altered in C20.
Interior not seen, said to contain two pairs of smoke blackened jointed cruck trusses forming central bay of house, moulded Ham stone lintel to cross passage fireplace, gable end grates later insertions.
The proximity of the dwelling to the Church of St Gregory (qv) and its antiquity suggests that it may have been the Priest's house, or the poor house. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, October 1982).
Listing NGR: ST3477927143
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 271240
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in October, (1982)
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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