Tanyard House

TANYARD HOUSE, TAN YARD LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1345548
Date first listed:
17-Apr-1959
List Entry Name:
Tanyard House
Statutory Address:
TANYARD HOUSE, TAN YARD LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1345548
Date first listed:
17-Apr-1959
Date of most recent amendment:
20-Sept-1988
List Entry Name:
Tanyard House
Statutory Address 1:
TANYARD HOUSE, TAN YARD LANE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
TANYARD HOUSE, TAN YARD LANE

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

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Kingsbury Episcopi
National Grid Reference:
ST4149918657

Details

ST41NW KINGSBURY EPISCOPI CP TAN YARD LANE (South side)
WEST LAMBROOK

6/95 Tanyard House
(previously listed as No 723,
724, and 725)
17.4.59

GV II

House, previously 3 cottages. C16, C17, C18. Coursed and squared Hamstone, coped verges, brick stools, thatched roof,
L-plan. Single storey and attic, 1:3 bays, 2 and 3-light casements with glazing bars except 4-light stone- mullioned
window on ground floor, 3 first floor windows with raking bonnet hoods. Two door openings, to right ribbed door in a
moulded 4-centred arch stone surround, to left plank door, wooden lintel. Interior with features of interest including
a fireplace of ground floor with adjacent bread oven and a former airing chamber, The roof, although altered contained
3 jointed crucks, some some-blackening indicating the existence of a former open-hall. (VAG report, unpublished SRO,
September 1984).


Listing NGR: ST4149918657

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
264435
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in September, (1984)

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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