We don't have any photos of this building yet. Why don't you be the first to send us one?
Latitude: 50.8164 / 50°48'59"N
Longitude: -2.0926 / 2°5'33"W
OS Eastings: 393575
OS Northings: 101876
OS Grid: ST935018
Mapcode National: GBR 318.RRX
Mapcode Global: FRA 66HY.4L6
Plus Code: 9C2VRW84+HX
Entry Name: Bishop's Court Farm House
Listing Date: 21 December 1982
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1120168
English Heritage Legacy ID: 107333
ID on this website: 101120168
Location: Shapwick, Dorset, DT11
County: Dorset
Civil Parish: Shapwick
Traditional County: Dorset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset
Church of England Parish: Shapwick St Bartholomew
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
Tagged with: Farmhouse
1.
5193 SHAPWICK WEST STREET (OFF)
(South Side)
Bishop's Court Farm House
ST 93 O1 7/24 21.12.82
II GV
2.
C16 origin, enlarged in C17 and circa 1857 when the main front range was built.
Front range has wide central entrance hall and one main room each side. Brick
walls with stone dressings and burnt header patterning, tiled roof, brick stacks.
Two storeys and attics. Central bay projects, under gable. Large four-centred
arched opening to recessed porch. Carved coats of arms in arch spandrils. Inner
door, with sidelights, under segmental arch. Ground floor has two 2-light stone
mullioned windows with double-hung sashes. First floor has two similar windows
and, in central bay, a small Gothic window with hoodmould. Internally, rooms
in this wing have good marble fireplaces and plaster cornices. Staircase has
cut string with spandril brackets and twisted balusters.
C16 rear block, now used as service rooms, has stone walls, tiled roof with stone
eaves courses, brick stacks. Two storeys and attics. Stone mullioned windows -
C19 replacements - on ground and first floors. Hipped dormer in attic. Lower
section west of this block, C17, has brick and stone walls and tiled roof with
parapets to gables, brick stack. Modern timber doors and windows.
Internally, the rear sections have two large open fireplaces, one with bread
oven, both part blocked. Deeply chamfered ceiling beams in two rooms.
RCHM Monument 4.
Listing NGR: ST9357501876
External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.
Other nearby listed buildings
