Rockhill Farmhouse and Attached Front Wall and Railings

ROCKHILL FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT WALL AND RAILINGS, WELLS WAY

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1384647
Date first listed:
19-Jun-1975
List Entry Name:
Rockhill Farmhouse and Attached Front Wall and Railings
Statutory Address:
ROCKHILL FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT WALL AND RAILINGS, WELLS WAY
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1384647
Date first listed:
19-Jun-1975
Date of most recent amendment:
17-Jul-2000
List Entry Name:
Rockhill Farmhouse and Attached Front Wall and Railings
Statutory Address 1:
ROCKHILL FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT WALL AND RAILINGS, WELLS WAY

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
ROCKHILL FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT WALL AND RAILINGS, WELLS WAY

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

District:
Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Keynsham
National Grid Reference:
ST 65775 67926

Details

KEYNSHAM

ST6567 WELLS WAY
739-1/5/67 (West side)
19/06/75 Rockhill Farmhouse and attached
front wall and railings
(Formerly Listed as:
WELLS WAY
(West side)
Nos.32 AND 34
Rockhill Farmhouse)

II

Farmhouse, now house with attached wall and railings. Probable
mid C17 core with mid C19 additions and late C20 alterations.
Whitewashed rubble with wooden lintels, ashlar copings and
gabled pantile roof with 2 gable end brick stacks; rubble wall
with ashlar copings and cast-iron railings.
PLAN: L-shaped plan with C17 ranges parallel to road and at
right-angles to road; mid C19 bake-house extension to rear.
Original through-passage, 2-room plan.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey; 2-window range. Roadside front with C20
casements irregularly-spaced to left angle and to right of
central late C20 glazed door; 2 gable ends to projecting wing
with 2 further C20 casements and 2 ground-floor and one
first-floor casement to inner face. Large external stack to
north return wall. Original doorway at angle, now a casement.
INTERIOR: flags to floor in parallel range and run-out stopped
chamfered beams with inglenook fireplace to ground-floor
right-hand room with wood bressumer.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: low, coped front wall spear-head railings
encloses front courtyard.
(White E: Keynsham and Saltford: Keynsham: 1990-: 41).




Listing NGR: ST6577567926

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
485100
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
White, E, Keynsham and Saltford, (1990), 41

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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