Tivington Farmhouse
TIVINGTON FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345396
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Tivington Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- TIVINGTON FARMHOUSE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/03660/18
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345396
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Tivington Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- TIVINGTON FARMHOUSE
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.
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:
- TIVINGTON FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Selworthy
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 93104 45582
Details
SS94NW SELWORTHY CP TIVINGTON
4/130 Tivington Farmhouse (formerly listed as Hooper's Farmhouse)
22.5.69 II
- Farmhouse. C17, enlarged and altered mid C19, south gable end and east front rebuilt mid C20, Rendered over rubble, thatched roofs, double Roman tiles, external stack west gable end, lateral stack south-west, lateral stack on north front adjoining porch. L-plan: entrance now on north front, full height porch with byre to right of through passage, south-west wing fronting road, originally 2-cell with cross passage and full height gabled porch, entrance now blocked and flanked by outshuts. North front: 2 storeys, 2-window frontage left of porch, all C19 3-light ogee-headed casements, first floor left rising through eaves, wall breaks forward slightly right, window set below eaves, lateral stack, ground floor central gabled porch with ogee headed doorway and plank door, full height gabled porch right of stack with applied half-timbering in gable end and chamfered semicircular headed doorway, probablly reset with plank door; mid C19 rubble farmbuilding to right not of special interest. Left return fronting road, central hipped thatched roof porch with 4-light chamfered mullioned window, blocked opening below, 2-light window right, gable end beyond, lateral stack left ground floor masked by outshots. Interior not seen; north range said to lack datable features with high ceilings in rear wing with deep chamfers and shallow step and runout stops. It is not clear which is the earliest section of the house. (VAG report, unpublished, SRO, March 1980; Photograph in NMR).
Listing NGR: SS9310445582
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265544
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in March, (1980)
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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