Barn, 17 Metres North of Chicks Farmhouse
BARN, 17 METRES NORTH OF CHICKS FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345819
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Barn, 17 Metres North of Chicks Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BARN, 17 METRES NORTH OF CHICKS FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345819
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Barn, 17 Metres North of Chicks Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARN, 17 METRES NORTH OF CHICKS FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
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, 17 METRES NORTH OF CHICKS FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- West Coker
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 52042 13822
Details
WEST COKER CP HIGH STREET (North side) St5213 10/288 Barn, 17 metres North of Chicks Farmhouse (formerly listed as Barn to North of Manor Farmhouse 19.4.61 GV II
Barn, possibly meant to double as a folly. Dated 1764. Local stone rubble with Ham stone dressings; corrugated asbestos cement sheet replacing thatch on main roof, with clay pantiles to extensions, coped gable to South. 2-storey in part, 9-bays. Plinthed; to East flank four 4-centre arched doorways with labels over, to bays -1, -3, -5 and -9; over bay -1 small matching doorway with label, to bay-2 a 2-light transomed 4-centre arched window with C16 style tracery, further upper doors bays-4 and -7. On West flank high doors in gabled projection bay-5, and catslide roof to lean-to buildings on either side, with variety of old plain windows and doors. At North end a 2-bay open shed with half-hipped clay pantile roof, the beam collar trusses with 3-purlins each major slope. In South gable a cinquefoil cusped pointed arch doorway above a concrete block lean-to building (this not included in listing), and in gable over oval ventilation hole and stone plaque reading 'Built in the Year 1764' Interior full of hay (August 1983) and not inspected, cider press still in position in bay-2. Some elements might be reused from Church of St. Martin of Tours (qv), where the tower was finished in 1765. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, October 1972).
Listing NGR: ST5204213822
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263846
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
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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