Durslade Farmhouse

Durslade Farmhouse, Dropping Lane, Bruton, BA10 0NL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1346174
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1961
List Entry Name:: Durslade Farmhouse
Statutory Address:: Durslade Farmhouse, Dropping Lane, Bruton, BA10 0NL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1346174
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1961
List Entry Name:: Durslade Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:: Durslade Farmhouse, Dropping Lane, Bruton, BA10 0NL

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: Durslade Farmhouse, Dropping Lane, Bruton, BA10 0NL

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bruton
National Grid Reference:: ST 68696 34487

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 05/06/2020

ST63SE 5/65

BRUTON CP DROPPING LANE (East side) Durslade Farmhouse

24.3.61 GV II Farmhouse C18. Local stone rubble with Doulting stone dressings; plain clay tile roof between coped gables; stone and chimney starts with moulded caps. "L"-plan; two storeys, three bay south west elevation. Twelve-pane sash windows in architraved surrounds to outer bays; plain door in architrave in centre with carved arms of Berkeley of Stratton in plain plaque above. Return wing on south side of three bays with "Y" tracery pointed arched windows rather wide, to both levels; between bays plain cambered arched doorways.

Interior not seen.

Front added or rebuilt by Sir Charles Berkeley in mid-C18, possibly to design of Nathaniel Ireson; rear may be late C18 restoration of original fabric. First recorded mention 1698 but thought to have been one of the manor farms, later acquired by Hoare family of Stourhead.

Listing NGR: ST6869634487

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Legacy System number:: 261538
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Couzens, P, Bruton in Selwood, (1972)

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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.