Townfield Farmhouse and Attached Barn

TOWNFIELD FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN, BACK STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1363844
Date first listed:
29-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:
Townfield Farmhouse and Attached Barn
Statutory Address:
TOWNFIELD FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN, BACK STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1363844
Date first listed:
29-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:
Townfield Farmhouse and Attached Barn
Statutory Address 1:
TOWNFIELD FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN, BACK STREET

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

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
TOWNFIELD FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN, BACK STREET

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

District:
Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Luckington
National Grid Reference:
ST 83938 82722

Details

LUCKINGTON BACK STREET ST 88 SW Alderton

2/206 Townfield Farmhouse and attached barn

GV II

Farmhouse and barn range, dated 1786, possibly on earlier core, rubble stone with stone slate roof. Farmhouse is two-storey and attic with end stacks and two ridge stacks, squared rubble stone to front with raised band and cyma-moulded flush mullion windows. Four first floor 2-light windows, ground floor 2-light, blocked door, 3-light, door with chamfered stone surround in broad c1830-40 gabled porch and 3-light. Porch has ball-finial and tripartite front of depressed-arched entry with round-arched sidelights flanking. Date plaque RM 1786 above porch. At right end of house, slightly projected one-window range with casements above and door below, obscured by link to 2-storey gabled outbuilding parallel to front, rubble stone to east with ovolo-moulded 2-light to end-wall first floor and attic, early C19 squared rubble stone to west. Barn is attached to west end of farmhouse, plain north side entry, projecting hipped south cart-entry and 5-bay roof with tie-beam- and-collar trusses. Rear of house has 2-light mullion windows, with plain dripstones over lower windows.

Listing NGR: ST8393882722

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
316019
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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