BARN ABOUT 20 METRES EAST OF BURROW FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1345749
Date first listed:: 22-May-1969
List Entry Name:: BARN ABOUT 20 METRES EAST OF BURROW FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: BARN ABOUT 20 METRES EAST OF BURROW FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1345749
Date first listed:: 22-May-1969
Date of most recent amendment:: 05-Jun-1985
List Entry Name:: BARN ABOUT 20 METRES EAST OF BURROW FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BARN ABOUT 20 METRES EAST OF BURROW FARMHOUSE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: BARN ABOUT 20 METRES EAST OF BURROW FARMHOUSE

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wootton Courtenay
National Park:: EXMOOR
National Grid Reference:: SS9383742124

Details

SS94SW WOOTTON COURTENAY CP -

6/116 Barn about 20 metres east of Burrow Farmhouse (formerly listed as Barn to N E of Lower Burrow Farmhouse)

22.5.69

GV II

Farmhouse, now barn. C15 altered to barn subsequently and enlarged probably C18. Rendered over cob and rubble, steeply pitched corrugated iron roof extended as catslide over addition. Plan: 5 bays with central lean-to addition on facade, possibly originally 2 storey at either end with central open hall and linking gallery subsequently much altered and only north-east end now 2 storey, Two storeys, small window opening first floor left of full height raking buttress, window opening below, original entrance to right, lean-to addition, double door of threshing barn with pentice hood porch, first floor winodw to right and door beyond. Left return gable end, wooden 4-light trefoil headed mullioned window, similar window on rear elevation with 4 trefoiled heads, but only 2 mullions, much eroded, 2-light octagonal mullioned window also at rear, similar 4-light in right gable end. Interior: 5 bays, 2 and a half pairs of smoke blackened jointed cruck trusses, plank and muntin screen with shouldered and chamfered doorway, blocked rear entrance to screens passage, inserted double doors of threshing barn at lower end. (VAG Reports, unpublished SRO, October 1972, April 1973; SANHS Proceedings, Vol 95, 1950).

Listing NGR: SS9383742124

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Legacy System number:: 265399
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in April, (1973)
'Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society' in Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, , Vol. 95, (1950)
'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in October, (1972)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.