CHURCH FARMHOUSE, AND ATTACHED SUNDAY SCHOOL ROOM, WITH BOUNDARY WALLING AND RAILINGS ON SOUTH SIDE

CHURCH FARMHOUSE, AND ATTACHED SUNDAY SCHOOL ROOM, WITH BOUNDARY WALLING AND RAILINGS ON SOUTH SIDE, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1345877
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:: CHURCH FARMHOUSE, AND ATTACHED SUNDAY SCHOOL ROOM, WITH BOUNDARY WALLING AND RAILINGS ON SOUTH SIDE
Statutory Address:: CHURCH FARMHOUSE, AND ATTACHED SUNDAY SCHOOL ROOM, WITH BOUNDARY WALLING AND RAILINGS ON SOUTH SIDE, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1345877
Date first listed:: 04-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:: CHURCH FARMHOUSE, AND ATTACHED SUNDAY SCHOOL ROOM, WITH BOUNDARY WALLING AND RAILINGS ON SOUTH SIDE
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH FARMHOUSE, AND ATTACHED SUNDAY SCHOOL ROOM, WITH BOUNDARY WALLING AND RAILINGS ON SOUTH SIDE, CHURCH STREET

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:: CHURCH FARMHOUSE, AND ATTACHED SUNDAY SCHOOL ROOM, WITH BOUNDARY WALLING AND RAILINGS ON SOUTH SIDE, CHURCH STREET

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lopen
National Grid Reference:: ST4270414485

Details

LOPEN CP CHURCH STREET (South side) ST4214 8/56 Church Farmhouse, and attached Sunday School Room, with boundary walling and railings on south side 4.2.58

GV II

Detached house. C17, modified in C18 and C19, the end of the north wing being converted into the Sunday School during the 1880s. Ham stone rubble with ashlar dressings, the south elevation being rendered and colourwashed; thatched roof with plain north gable, stepped coped gables to south crosswing; brick chimney stacks. 'T'-plan, 2 storeys; south elevation of 3 bays. Sash windows of 20 panes in plain openings; to lower centre bay a 5-fielded-panel door in semi-circular arched recess with plain fanlight, North wing has 2 bays integral with house, with 3-light horizontal-bar casement windows and C20 door in recess to lower bay 2 of west side, east side plain. The Sunday School room has a gabled porch with Welsh slate roof on west side, with 4-centred outer arch and plain boarded inner door; to north of this a blocked stairlight and traces of other blocked openings: two C20 metal windows in each wall: in north gable a C19 2-light traceried C14 style window without label. Interiors not seen. About 2 metres south of crosswing, for full width, a low stone ashlar wall with wrought-iron railings set over, having alternate arrowheads and hoops, with cast-iron urn finials to arch-braced standards: C20 wrought-iron gate opposite doorway. The whole adding to the setting of the house. (Hopper S, Lopen and its Church, Petherton Press, 1975).

Listing NGR: ST4270414485

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Legacy System number:: 264138
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Hopper, S, Lopen and its Church, (1975)

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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.