WHITCHURCH FARMHOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1345104
Date first listed:: 21-Sep-1960
List Entry Name:: WHITCHURCH FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: WHITCHURCH FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1345104
Date first listed:: 21-Sep-1960
List Entry Name:: WHITCHURCH FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: WHITCHURCH FARMHOUSE

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:: WHITCHURCH FARMHOUSE

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary 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

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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.