Glasses Farmhouse
GLASSES FARMHOUSE, ROADWATER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345651
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Glasses Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- GLASSES FARMHOUSE, ROADWATER
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- Date:
- 2001-06-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/04569/15
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345651
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Glasses Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- GLASSES FARMHOUSE, ROADWATER
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:
- GLASSES FARMHOUSE, ROADWATER
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Old Cleeve
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- ST0268537948
Details
ST03NW OLD CLEEVE CP
ROADWATER
4/115 Glasses Farmhouse
22.5.69
- II
Farmhouse and attached outbuilding. c16, altered C17 and early c20. Roughcast over random rubble, thatched roof,
external roughcast stack left gable end, rendered stacks second bay left, right gable end at junction with outbuilding
and lateral stack to left of entrance. L-plan, evolution not clear, lying roughly North-South with outbuilding attached
South West corner, possibly open hall house, ceiled, enlarged North with stair turret and unidentified projection on
East front flanking entrance with porch rooM. West front: 2 storeys, 4:2 bays, early-late c20 fenestration, groundfloor
end 2 bays left marked by single storey L-plan addition, bay wider to left of lateral stack, pentice porch right, C20
slate roofed canted bay beyond projecting right, gable end of 4 bay outbuilding with ranking buttress on left return.
East front: oriel window over porch flanked by stair turret right with 2-light casement and projection left with small
lancets, third bay right another projection with lancets. Interior: 9 panel compartment ceiling to right of cross
passage with 3 pairs of jointed cruck trusses on first floor, to left of cross passage steeply chamfered beams with
spade stops groundfloor chamfered scantling joists with step and runout stops first floor, newel stairs rising opposite
lateral stack.
Listing NGR: ST0268537948
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 264873
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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