Harmans Cottage
HARMANS COTTAGE, THORN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390997
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Harmans Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- HARMANS COTTAGE, THORN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390997
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Harmans Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- HARMANS COTTAGE, THORN LANE
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:
- HARMANS COTTAGE, THORN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Thornfalcon
- National Grid Reference:
- ST2777923775
Details
1072/0/10008
14-APR-04
THORNFALCON
THORN LANE
Harmans Cottage
II
House. Circa early-mid C17; extended circa C19 and late C20. Coursed stone rubble, rendered at rear. Thatched roof with half-hipped ends. Gable-end and lateral stacks with brick shafts.
PLAN: 2-room and through-passage plan; kitchen on left [south] with large gable-end fireplace and unheated service room on right with later corner stack. Third room on right [north] end and outshut [now kitchen] at rear added circa C19 and wing at rear of north end added late C20.
EXTERIOR: 1 storey and attic. Asymmetrical 2-window range east front; 3-light casements with horizontal glazing bars, first floor under eyebrow eaves; central doorway with plank door; ground floor openings have timber lintels. Rear [west] two eyebrow dormers with casements, single storey outshut with double-Roman tile lean-to roof in angle with late C20 wing on left.
INTERIOR: Former kitchen on left [south] has deeply chamfered cross-beam with hollow-step stops, large gable-end fireplace with slightly chamfered cambered timber bressumer on rebuilt brick jambs and cupboard in rear wall with plank door. Right hand [now centre] room has roughly hewn axial beam and later joists. Attic chambers ceiled, but with roof principals exposed and set on wall tops; 4-bay roof with straight principals and later collars.
Harmans Cottage is a good example of a C17 2-room plan house, with later additions that do not affect the integrity of the original house.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 492638
- 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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