Colley Farmhouse

COLLEY FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1345884
Date first listed:
30-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:
Colley Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
COLLEY FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1345884
Date first listed:
30-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:
Colley Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
COLLEY 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
COLLEY FARMHOUSE

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

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Buckland St. Mary
National Grid Reference:
ST2563114117

Details

ST21SE BUCKLAND ST MARY CP -

Colley Farmhouse

5/29

-

- II

Farmhouse. C17, reroofed C19, west gable end rebuilt C20. Random rubble local stone, asbestos slate roof hipped to
left, brick stacks to right of central entrance and between first and second bays right, Plan 3-cell and cross passage
facing north with coeval or almost contemporary single bay addition west gable end. Two storeys, 2:1:1 bays, all late
C19-early C20 wooden 3-light casements, except C20 2-light first floor end bay right, wooden lintels to ground floor
openings, left 3-light casements flanking 4-panel door, C20 door to through passage, 3-light casement and another
entrance end bay right. Interior: kitchen to right of through passage with spice cupboard, steeply chamfered beads with
step and runout stops, depressed Tudor arch head doorframe from through passage into hall, 6-panel compartment ceiling,
cob wall to inner roof with scroll stops to chamfered beam which appears to have been used as a store for some time.
Apparently the property is referred to in 1664 as Blindmore Manor, and was part of the nearby Forde Abbey estate in
1839 (VAG Report,unpublished SR0, 1978).


Listing NGR: ST2563114117

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
264083
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, (1978)

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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