PARK FARM COTTAGE

PARK FARM COTTAGE, BROOMFIELD

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Overview

A pair of twin farm workers cottages built in the late C18 or early C19. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392380
Date first listed:: 24-Jan-2008
List Entry Name:: PARK FARM COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: PARK FARM COTTAGE, BROOMFIELD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392380
Date first listed:: 24-Jan-2008
List Entry Name:: PARK FARM COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: PARK FARM COTTAGE, BROOMFIELD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: PARK FARM COTTAGE, BROOMFIELD

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Yatton Keynell
National Grid Reference:: ST 87270 78281

Reasons for Designation

Park Farm Cottage merits designation for the following main reasons:

* Despite its conversion into one dwelling, the plan-form of these former twin cottages has survived mostly intact, and it contains a number of good quality late-C18 and C19 fixtures and features.

* Although modest, its symmetrical and balanced design displays good quality craftsmanship using distinctive local materials.

* It forms an interesting group with the nationally important Park Farmhouse (qv) with which it is historically associated.

Details

YATTON KEYNELL

1099/0/10014 BROOMFIELD 24-JAN-08 Park Farm Cottage

GV II A pair of twin farm workers cottages built in the late C18 or early C19.

MATERIAL: Park Farm Cottage is built in rubble stone with ashlar stone dressings, with a pitched stone tiled roof with stone copings to the gable ends. It has one axial and two gable end stacks, constructed in stone with decorative bands.

PLAN: The building has a double depth plan with a late-C20 extension to the rear.

EXTERIOR: It has a symmetrical front elevation with entrances to the far left and right to each former cottage, flanked by two centrally positioned eight/eight panes sash window to each floor. The entrances have vertical boarded timber doors, with that to the right having a small porch added in the late C20. To the rear, above the late-C20 flat roofed extension, are two eight/eight panes sash windows to each former cottage. The gable ends have a small centrally positioned six/six pane sash window at attic level, and a small six/six pane sash on ground floor level, lighting the rear end of each cottage.

INTERIOR: The building contains a number of late-C18 and C19 features. On the ground floor: stairs with turned balusters, a flag stone floor, two large stone fire surrounds with cast iron ranges and a rendered brick cream-maker. And upstairs there are small stone fire surrounds with cast iron grates in each bedroom, and timber boarded doors with attached boarded screens to the attic rooms.

HISTORY: The twin cottages belonged to Park Farm and were probably built as workers accommodation. The cottages share the same vernacular characteristics as Park Farmhouse (qv) which has a date stone of 1778. Between 1886 and 1900 the twin cottages were extended to the rear, now occupied by the late-C20 kitchen extension.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION DECISION: Park Farm Cottage merits designation for the following main reasons:

* Despite its conversion into one dwelling, the plan-form of these former twin cottages has survived mostly intact, and it contains a number of good quality late-C18 and C19 fixtures and features.

* Although a modest building, its symmetrical and balanced design displays good quality craftsmanship, using distinctive local materials.

* It forms an interesting group with the nationally important Park Farmhouse (qv), with which it is historically associated.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 504231
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.