Wood Tenament
WOOD TENAMENT, JURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1247931
- Date first listed:
- 06-Apr-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Wood Tenament
- Statutory Address:
- WOOD TENAMENT, JURY ROAD
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- Date:
- 2003-04-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/10246/20
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1247931
- Date first listed:
- 06-Apr-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Wood Tenament
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOOD TENAMENT, JURY ROAD
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:
- WOOD TENAMENT, JURY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dulverton
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 91640 27908
Details
SS9127
15/79
DULVERTON CP
JURY ROAD (South side)
Wood Tenament
(formerly listed as Woodliving)
6.4.59
GV
II*
Farmhouse now dwelling. C16, extended C17 and early C19. Rendered over rubble, thatched roof, two lateral stacks with slate offsets on north front and another tall stone stack with wall to left built out, external stack east gable end.
Plan complex, site slopes away to south, wide through corridor plank and muntin screen right, hall beyond with annexe or butlery at west end, winder stair; to left rooms with stair built out beside stack adjoining entrance. North front: two-storey bays, irregular fenestration, stair turret projecting penultimate bay right, late C19 fenestration with C17 two-light ovolo moulded casement end bay right, ovolo-moulded Tudor arched head door frame with studded plank door centre right. Garden elevation: seven bays, mostly C20 fenestration, wall may have extended further west.
Interior: said to contain four pairs of jointed cruck trusses, plank and muntin screen right of cobbled through passage with exposed joists, hall altered C19, axial beam at screens end and lateral chamfered beam with step and runout stops to framed partition with two peaked door frames opening into storeroom that possibly extended further west. Grate blocked in hall, winder stair to upper room, round headed door frame, timber framed partitions with late C16-early C17 painted panels, C16 grate.
The evolution of the house not clear without a more detailed inspection.
(Photograph in NMR; VAG Report unpublished SRO, April 1973).
Listing NGR: SS9164027908
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 429353
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, (1973)
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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