Muchelney Pottery
MUCHELNEY POTTERY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056539
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Muchelney Pottery
- Statutory Address:
- MUCHELNEY POTTERY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056539
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 07-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Muchelney Pottery
- Statutory Address 1:
- MUCHELNEY POTTERY
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:
- MUCHELNEY POTTERY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Muchelney
- National Grid Reference:
- ST4295823496
Details
MUCHELNEY CP
ST42SW
THORNEY
8/236 Muchelney Pottery
(previously listed as Cottage 180
yards south of Thornette)
17.4.59
GV II
Detached cottage, formerly more than one. C18 or earlier. Local lias stone roughly cut and squared; thatched roof with
hipped north end and half-hipped south. brick end chimney stacks. Single storey with attics, 6-bays irregular
fenestration. Timber casement windows of 2 and 3 lights with horizontal glazing bars, set under timber lintols; those
to bays 2 and 3 have early chamfer-mullioned oak frames, as has attic window bay 3, which has small leaded panes,
internal ironwork and iron framed opening light: two other dormers between bays 3/4 and 4/5: between bays 3 and 4 but
left of dormer is a porch under thatch with C20 door, with former oven projecting alongside. Inside a through passage,
apparently including masonry from Muchelney Abbey, (q.v), laid nearly dry, including one vaulting boss, with an
elliptical arched doorway with keystone suggesting an original gable entry. Bay 1 is an outbuilding with stone front
wall with C19 door and window, but sides and rear are timber framed on stone plinth, probably C18, clad externally with
elm weatherboarding. Interior of house not seen.
Listing NGR: ST4295823496
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263301
- 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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