WHITCHURCH FARMHOUSE
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1345104
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sep-1960
- Statutory Address:
- WHITCHURCH FARMHOUSE
Map
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- WHITCHURCH FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Somerset
- District:
- Mendip (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ston Easton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 63440 53553
Details
STON EASTON CP
ST65SW -
4/29 Whitchurch Farmhouse
21.9.60
- II*
Prebendal house of Wells Cathedral; now farmhouse. Part of fabric may be as early as 1140 when a charter was issued by
Bishop Robert of Bath; datestones: "G.C.D. 1613", and "H.G.E, 1633" mark alterations by the Prebendaries of that time;
dairy wing added in conforming style in C17/Cl8; some windows renewed C20. Random rubble, coped verges, slate roofs,
ashlar stacks. T-plan. Two storeys and attic, and 3 storeys, 1:1:1:1 bays, that to right blank in a projecting wing
under a front facing gable; 2, 3 and 4-light moulded stone-mullioned windows, some with stopped labels, that to left of
ground floor with a transom and above it a weathered string at first floor level; second bay in a projecting 2-storeyed
gabled porch, 2-light stone-mullioned window to gable face; door opening in elaborate moulded 4-centred headed stone
surround, carved spandrels, frieze with floral carving, cornice, inner doorway in a moulded stone frame, C17 traceried
door. Interior with good C18 staircase; further lesser features. (V.A.G. report, unpublished S.R.O., April 1981; Reid
R. D. Some Buildings of Mendip, 1979).
Listing NGR: ST6344053553
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 267966
- 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.
End of official listing
