Sweet Briar Cottage
SWEET BRIAR COTTAGE, HENLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1346078
- Date first listed:
- 07-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Sweet Briar Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- SWEET BRIAR COTTAGE, HENLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1346078
- Date first listed:
- 07-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Sweet Briar Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- SWEET BRIAR COTTAGE, HENLEY ROAD
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:
- SWEET BRIAR COTTAGE, HENLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- High Ham
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 43478 32499
Details
HIGH HAM CP HENLEY ROAD (South side) ST43SW HENLEY 2/42 Sweet Briar Cottage - II -
Detached cottage. C16/C17 origins. Local lias stone cut and squared; thatched roof with plain gables, brick end chimney stacks. Two storeys, 3 bays. Casement windows, C20 with diamond leaded panes, lower windows under continuous label; C20 boarded door bay 2, set under thatched hood on timber brackets; in an apparent extension on west gable a C20 3-light oriel window, then a former farm building, with doorways blocked on roadside, under corrugated asbestos monopitch roof; further long plain extension to east gable. Interior not seen, but reported are two-room with cross-passage plan, almost full width gable fireplaces, collar truss roof: similar in many respects to Henley Farmhouse (qv) and Windsor Farmhouse (qv) nearby. (VAG Report, SRO Unpublished, 1972).
Listing NGR: ST4347832499
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263105
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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