Holmhurst

HOLMHURST

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1058017
Date first listed:
22-May-1969
List Entry Name:
Holmhurst
Statutory Address:
HOLMHURST
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Date:
2001-09-02
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1058017
Date first listed:
22-May-1969
List Entry Name:
Holmhurst
Statutory Address 1:
HOLMHURST

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:
HOLMHURST

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

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Selworthy
National Park:
Exmoor
National Grid Reference:
SS 89824 47899

Details

SS8947 SELWORTHY CP BOSSINGTON 22/81 Holmhurst 22.5.69

GV II

Cottage, Cl7, extensively altered mid-late C19. Local stone random rubble, double Roman tile roof half hipped left with gablet, overhanging eaves and sprockets, brick stack right gable end lateral stone stack centre with slate roofed bread oven projection. L-plan: probably 2-cell extended with wing at rear, possibly containing stair turret, and agricultural wing added right gable end. One and a half storeys, gabled dormer right rising from eaves, ground floor to left of stack wall built out with reset 4-light ovolo moulded mullioned window, right segmental headed 2-light window with brick arch perhaps earlier entrance, lower independently roofed wing to right, unlit on facade, entrance on left return via C19 lean-to roofed porch set in angle with possible stair turret projection in rear wing. Interior not seen. (Photograph in NMR).

Listing NGR: SS8982447899

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
265495
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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