Castle Farmhouse
CASTLE FARMHOUSE, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345746
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CASTLE FARMHOUSE, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345746
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CASTLE FARMHOUSE, MARKET PLACE
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:
- CASTLE FARMHOUSE, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ilchester
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 52180 22757
Details
Castle Farmhouse, Market Place. 10/69 8/69
------------------------------------ Castle Farmhouse, Market Place. 10/69 8/69 ------------------------------------
ST5222 ILCHESTER CP MARKET PLACE (West side) 10/69 Castle Farmhouse 19.4.61 GV II Former inn, later farmhouse. C18. Local lias stone cut and squared. Ham stone dressings; Welsh slate roof with plain gables; red and grey banded brick chimney stacks. Three storeys, 4 bays. Plinth, band courses, rusticated quoins; 12-pane sash windows in keystoned architraves; to lower bay 3 a C19 door with rectangular fanlight in moulded architrave with moulded flat stone hood on shaped brackets. Tall single-storey single-bay extension on north-east gable, with hipped roof and plain casement windows. Interior not seen. A farm, created on the site of the medieval Whitehall Nunnery; the farmhouse was known as The Bell Inn by 1813, and by 1825 was known as the Castle Inn; by 1840 it was the largest coaching inn in the town, but by 1856 seems to have been reshaped as a farm: it was vacated in 1978, since when most of the farm buildings have been converted or demolished (SSAVBRG Report on the Farmstead, SRO Unpublished, September 1981).
Listing NGR: ST5218022757
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263451
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Somerset and South Avon Vernacular Building Research Group Report in September, (1981)
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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