Harnham Farmhouse
HARNHAM FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1350317
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Harnham Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HARNHAM FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1350317
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Harnham Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HARNHAM 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.
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:
- HARNHAM FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Norton Fitzwarren
- National Grid Reference:
- ST1718225978
Details
1661/0/10012
11-MAR-03
OAKE
Harnham Farmhouse
GV
II
Farmhouse. Circa early C19 extension of an earlier house dated 1742. Dressed stone, roughcast at rear. Slate hipped roof with lead rolls to hips and ridge; gable-ended roof to rear wing. Side stacks with brick shafts; rear wing has brick axial and gable-end stacks.
PLAN: T-shaped on plan with principal room on either side of central entrance hall, leading to large stair well at rear in wing with kitchen on right in outshut in the angle. The service wing at the back [dated 1742] is probably the earlier house and has a later outshut on the north side.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar. Symmetrical 3-bay east front; all original sash windows complete with glazing bars, tall 24-pane ground floor sashes, 16-pane first floor sashes and smaller 12-pane sashes on second floor; central round-headed doorway with semi-circular fanlight and fielded and reeded 6-panel door. Large 3-storey stairwell wing at rear with hipped roof and large 28-pane sash window on south side. 2-storey kitchen outshut on north side of stairwell wing. Service wing at rear [west] with C20 windows on south front and stone tablet inscribed: 1742, with tablet below with two shields inscribed with the letters: ?B and RB; single-storey outshut on north side of rear wing with double-Roman lean-to roof.
INTERIOR: Much of the original joinery remains intact, including panelled doors and architraves, panelled window shutters, a good open-well staircase rising the full height of house with stick balusters and a moulded handrail ramped up to column newels and a fireplace in front first floor south east room with simple early C19 chimneypiece and grate. Victorian chimneypiece in north east first floor room and C20 brick fireplaces on ground floor. King-post roof trusses with tenoned purlins. Rear wing has large blocked kitchen fireplace with timber bressumer.
A largely complete Georgian house with many of the original features intact.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 490127
- 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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