Jessamine House and Long Cottage

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:: Jessamine House and Long Cottage, Stoke St. Gregory, Taunton, TA3 6EJ

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Official list entry

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

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Jessamine House and Long Cottage, Stoke St. Gregory, Taunton, TA3 6EJ

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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

ST32NW 3/71

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

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Legacy System number:: 271240
Legacy System:: LBS

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'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in October, (1982)

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