Sockety Farmhouse
SOCKETY FARMHOUSE, SANDY HOLE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345965
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Sockety Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SOCKETY FARMHOUSE, SANDY HOLE
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- Date:
- 2003-10-03
- Reference:
- IOE01/09542/32
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345965
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Sockety Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOCKETY FARMHOUSE, SANDY HOLE
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:
- SOCKETY FARMHOUSE, SANDY HOLE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Merriott
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 44084 13673
Details
ST41SW MERRIOTT CP SANDY HOLE (East side)
2/153 Sockety farmhouse
4.2.58
II
Detached farmhouse. Later C18. Ham stone cut and squared, but facade in red brick, Flemish bond, with ashlar dressings; plain clay tiled roof between stepped coped gables; brick end chimney stacks. Two storeys with attic, 3 bays south elevation at right angles to road. Hollow-chamfer mullioned windows in chamfered recesses with labels, 3-light to outer bays, and 2-light first floor hay 2. To lower bay 2 a C20 door in recess with plain ashlar surround and moulded stone hood on stone brackets. One small single-light window in west gable with timber lintol, otherwise C20 timber casements. 0utshut to rear. Against east gable a 2-storey building in roughly cut and squared stone, with offset at first floor level, and Welsh slate roof having stepped coped east gable with gabletted finial: two 3-light casements to first floor, the more easterly an earlier pattern with rectangular leaded lights and iron-traded opening light. Interior not seen. One of the later C18 developments north of the main village (VCH Somerset, Vol IV, 1978, p53).
Listing NGR: ST4408413673
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262403
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1978), 53
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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