Barn About 20 Metres East of Burrow Farmhouse
BARN ABOUT 20 METRES EAST OF BURROW FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- 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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- Reference:
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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265399
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
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 April, (1973)
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in October, (1972)
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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