Gatehouse and Barn Abutting West End at Bratton Court
GATEHOUSE AND BARN ABUTTING WEST END AT BRATTON COURT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1345727
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse and Barn Abutting West End at Bratton Court
- Statutory Address:
- GATEHOUSE AND BARN ABUTTING WEST END AT BRATTON COURT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1345727
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse and Barn Abutting West End at Bratton Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEHOUSE AND BARN ABUTTING WEST END AT BRATTON COURT
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:
- GATEHOUSE AND BARN ABUTTING WEST END AT BRATTON COURT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Minehead Without
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 94619 46319
Details
SS94NW MINEHEAD WITHOUT CP BRATTON
2/83 Gatehouse and barn abutting west end at Bratton Court
22.5.69
GV I
Gatehouse and barn. C15, altered C19 and C20. Rendered in part over red sandstone random rubble, west Somerset slate roof, medieval louvred type chimney east of gateway opening. Plan: barn abutting west end of gatehouse range comprising 5-bay original domestic wing, 2-bay gatehouse, 4-bay agricultural building. South front: 2 storeys, irregularly placed fenestration, first floor C15 cinquefoil headed lancet left, similar 2-light to left of stairway opening to gatehouse, gable fronted gatehouse with clock from Ashley Combe House, Porlock CP (demolished), right 3 loft openings with pigeon hole openings irregularly placed, ground floor left original chamfered peaked doorframe, small opening right, inserted square headed opening left of entrance to gatehouse, flight of 14 stone steps, square headed carriageway entrance, chamfered joists to ceiling, right stable door, C20 raking buttresses flanking stable door with opening beyond. North elevation masked by farmbuildings (qv) left, unlit right, part renewed C16 double doors with Tudor arch head wicket gate and contemporary iron work, wooden trefoil headed lancet. Interior: main feature is the gatehouse room with 3 pairs of fine arch braced jointed crucks with shields below, similar to those at the Old Manor Guest House, Dunster (qv); chamfered lintel to fireplace in east wall; east end range 4 pairs of collar beam trusses without purlins; west end first floor 6-light octagonal mullioned window, unglazed, in gable end, chamfered beams with step and runout stops, some chamfered joists, 5 pairs of tenoned jointed cruck trusses, remains of plastered floor. Barn abutting featureless, possibly on site of earlier detached kitchen. Notable for survival of early wooden windows and particularly the fine double doors. (VA6 Report, unpublished SRO, March l978; Photographs in NMR).
Listing NGR: SS9461946316
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265366
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in March, (1978)
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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