Woodhouse Farmhouse

WOODHOUSE FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1391150
Date first listed:
07-Dec-2004
List Entry Name:
Woodhouse Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
WOODHOUSE FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1391150
Date first listed:
07-Dec-2004
List Entry Name:
Woodhouse Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
WOODHOUSE 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.

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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

Location

Statutory Address:
WOODHOUSE FARMHOUSE

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

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Rimpton
National Grid Reference:
ST6176622620

Details

73/0/10020
07-DEC-04

YEOVIL
RIMPTON
Woodhouse Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. C17; remodelled and extended in the C18 and C19. Rendered cob walls. Steeply pitched gable-ended roof clad in clay patent tiles. Brick gable-end stacks.
PLAN: 2-room plan, parlour on left [west] and kitchen on right [east], both heated from gable-end stacks; integral pantry outshut behind kitchen and larger dairy outshut behind parlour probably added in the C18. Circa late C18 or early C19 outbuilding on left [west] end and C19 outshut on right [east] end.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. Symmetrical 3-bay south front; 3-light casements on the ground floor and 2-light casements on the first floor, all with horizontal glazing bars and C19; central doorway with late C20 plank door. Outshut on right with lean-to roof and C20 plank door; outbuilding on left with plank door and 4-pane window; small C18 2-light attic windows in end gables. Rear [north] main roof carried down over outshuts, the original smaller outshut on left projects and circa C18 painted brick outshut on right with brick stack in angle; various casements.
INTERIOR: Former kitchen on right has deeply chamfered cross-beam with cyma stops and large fireplace with unchamfered dressed limestone jambs, large slightly cambered and chamfered bressumer without stops and a brick oven. Smaller parlour to left with deeply chamfered cross-beam with cyma stops, fireplace blocked by C20 tiled chimneypiece and cupboard to side with panelled doors. 6-panel doors on ground floor and C18 and C19 plank doors on first floor. C18 5-bay tenoned-purlin collar-truss roof with lapped and pegged collars.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
492381
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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