Cloutsham Farmhouse
CLOUTSHAM FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345719
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Cloutsham Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CLOUTSHAM FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345719
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Cloutsham Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLOUTSHAM FARMHOUSE
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:
- CLOUTSHAM FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Luccombe
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 89272 43125
Details
SS84SE LUCCOMBE CP CLOUTSHAM
5/41 Cloutsham Farmhouse
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- II
Farmhouse. Probably C17 on site of earlier dwelling, enlargement dated 1869, partly rebuilt after fire in 1916. Red sandstone random rubble, plain clay tiles, stone stacks. L-plan. Original farmhouse rebuilt after fire lying roughly east-west with large C19 extension on South front in Swiss chalet style. South front: gable end, wooden gallery at first floor under lower roof, segmental shingled gable end on columns, pierced lattice flat balusters, curved brackets, large canted bay window ground floor, C20 window above; to left set back from house wing with gabled block in junction, evidence of lateral stack and perhaps stair projection but much altered. Right return, 3 first floor gabled dormers, ground floor 4-light ogee headed window with date stone 1869 set below, entrance north-east corner, C20 door. The farm was enlarged by Sir Thomas Dyke Acland and is frequently mentioned in the literature on stag hunting on Exmoor. (Chadwick Healey, The History of Part of West Somerset, 1901; Turner, Exmoor Village, 1947).
Listing NGR: SS8927243125
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265324
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Healey, C, The History of the Part of West Somerset, (1901)
Turner, , Exmoor Village, (1947)
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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