FARM COMPLEX, EAST OF BROMES HOUSE

FARM COMPLEX, EAST OF BROMES HOUSE, BROMES LANE

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Overview

Farm complex, incorporating barn and shelter shed. C18 date with a later outshut to the south side of the barn. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393548
Date first listed:: 03-Dec-2009
List Entry Name:: FARM COMPLEX, EAST OF BROMES HOUSE
Statutory Address:: FARM COMPLEX, EAST OF BROMES HOUSE, BROMES LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393548
Date first listed:: 03-Dec-2009
List Entry Name:: FARM COMPLEX, EAST OF BROMES HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: FARM COMPLEX, EAST OF BROMES HOUSE, BROMES LANE

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: FARM COMPLEX, EAST OF BROMES HOUSE, BROMES LANE

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Isle Abbotts
National Grid Reference:: ST3519520792

Reasons for Designation

The farm complex to the east of Bromes House, Isle Abbotts is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: * It is a substantially intact example of a timber-framed agricultural complex, which is rare in Somerset * Most of the timber-framing is of good quality and displays vernacular building techniques in construction and use of carpentry * It has strong group value with the Grade II* listed Bromes House with which it is historically and functionally related.

Details

ISLE ABBOTTS

1596/0/10002 BROMES LANE 03-DEC-09 Farm Complex, East of Bromes House

GV II Farm complex, incorporating barn and shelter shed. C18 date with a later outshut to the south side of the barn.

MATERIALS: Timber-framed on coursed and squared Blue Lias footings, with clapboarded coverings. The west gable end of the barn is of masonry. The roofs are clad in corrugated sheeting, except for the west half of the south range which has double Roman tiles, and were previously thatched.

PLAN: The attached buildings form three sides of a U-shaped yard; a further farm building (now part of Bromes House) although detached from the other agricultural buildings defines the west side. The complex consists of a large threshing barn to the north; a shelter shed on the east side; and a multi-purpose range to the south.

EXTERIOR: The BARN is rectangular on plan, with a half-hipped roof, and is of six bays. It appears to contain substantially intact C18 pegged and jointed wall-framing of substantial scantling, with surviving wall posts, wall plate, tie beams and some studwork. The main elevation, to the south, has an outshut along the whole of its length which has clapboard walling with a ten-light window to the centre (greenhouse) and double-doored garage opening to the left. At the western end of the south elevation, between the barn and the outshut, is a horizontal chamfered beam with runout stops, which supports the roof to the outshut. The west gable end is largely of coursed Blue lias rubble with weatherboarding to its upper section. The plinth to the north elevation has been repaired in places with concrete blockwork. There are opposing entrances with double doors in the north and south elevations, though those to the south side have been replaced with a single plank with strap hinges and additional clapboarding, though the door frame remains in situ. The SHELTER SHED is a long, low single storey range. Its west elevation is open-fronted and here the roof is supported on equally-spaced timber upright posts that rest on stone pads. The SOUTH RANGE is also single storey and may have been used in part as a shelter shed and for other agricultural purposes. A later addition has been built against part of the south side of this range and is not of interest.

INTERIOR: The interior of the barn is divided into two by a stud partition wall, and both sections are open to the roof. The stud wall is clapboarded, but stone pillars have been introduced to support the tie beam. In addition, a raised floor has been inserted within part of the eastern half of the building. The roof structure is based on five trusses formed from tie beams and collared principal rafters, with two rows of staggered butt purlins, and it is all pegged. The roof carpentry of both the shelter shed and the south range is similar to that of the barn and consists of principal trusses with tie beams and single rows of staggered butt purlins.

HISTORY: These farm buildings form a cogent group with Bromes House, a former farmhouse with medieval origins that was altered and restored in the early C17. They are depicted on the 1841 Tithe map and their footprint has not changed since then.

SOURCES: Tithe Map (1841), Somerset Record Office E.H.D. Williams, Bromes Farmhouse, Isle Abbotts (1990), Somerset Vernacular Architecture Group

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The farm complex to the east of Bromes House, Isle Abbotts is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: * It is a substantially intact example of a timber-framed agricultural complex, which is rare in Somerset * Most of the timber-framing is of good quality and displays vernacular building techniques in construction and use of carpentry * It has strong group value with the Grade II* listed Bromes House with which it is historically and functionally related

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 506528
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Williams, E H D , Bromes Farmhouse, Isle Abbotts, (1990)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.