Description

ST41SW MERRIOTT CP SANDY HOLE (East side)

2/153 Sockety farmhouse

4.2.58

II

Detached farmhouse. Later C18. Ham stone cut and squared, but facade in red brick, Flemish bond, with ashlar dressings;
plain clay tiled roof between stepped coped gables; brick end chimney stacks. Two storeys with attic, 3 bays south
elevation at right angles to road. Hollow-chamfer mullioned windows in chamfered recesses with labels, 3-light to outer
bays, and 2-light first floor hay 2. To lower bay 2 a C20 door in recess with plain ashlar surround and moulded stone
hood on stone brackets. One small single-light window in west gable with timber lintol, otherwise C20 timber casements.
0utshut to rear. Against east gable a 2-storey building in roughly cut and squared stone, with offset at first floor
level, and Welsh slate roof having stepped coped east gable with gabletted finial: two 3-light casements to first
floor, the more easterly an earlier pattern with rectangular leaded lights and iron-traded opening light. Interior not
seen. One of the later C18 developments north of the main village (VCH Somerset, Vol IV, 1978, p53).

Listing NGR: ST4408413673

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26629544

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Recommended Books

• 
  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings