Description

CHAFFCOMBE CP TOLLEYS LANE (East side) ST30NE LYDMARSH

4/5 Tolleys Farmhouse - - II

Detached house. C15, with modifications. Local stone rubble, some cob, all rendered and colourwashed half-hipped thatched roof; brick chimney stacks. Single-storey with attic, 4 bays, Casement windows, mostly with horizontal bars, 3-light below. except bay 4 which is 2-light; above, 2-light windows bays 1, 3 and 4, the first under the eaves and the others set into thatched dormers, and to bay 2 an earlier pattern 4-light casement also set into thatch; C20 porch with C20 doorway between bays 2/3. Further casement windows in north gable; lean-to at rear. Interior has deep-chamfered crossbeam to lower ceilings, one with long step and runouts, with sockets and mortices for wattle and doorframes; 2 old simple fireplaces, both adapted: roof frame of 4 pairs of jointed crucks with trenched purlins, and one wattle-and-daub partition on first floor. Originally one house, subdivided later into 2 or 3 houses and now one property again. The foundations of a previous farmhouse to this site said to survive to west. The settlement recorded by 1170. (VCH Somerset, Vol IV, 1978, p128).

Listing NGR: ST3570608858

External Links

• Wikidata Q26307816

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)