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© N.L. Stones
IoE Number:
33985
Location:
COURT FARMHOUSE, CHAPEL LANE (east side)
WINFORD, NORTH SOMERSET, SOMERSET
Photographer:
N.L. Stones
Date Photographed:
11 June 2001
Date listed:
13 October 1952
Date of last amendment:
13 October 1952
Grade
II*
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ST 56 SW WINFORD C.P. CHAPEL LANE (east side)
6/118 Court Farmhouse
13.10.52
G.V. II*
Farmhouse. Dated C/1/C/1593 (on stone above central doorway). Squared and
coursed rubble with some render, flush rusticated dressed stone quoins, stone
openings and copings, pantile roofs with some double Roman tiles to wings.
U-shaped plan with rear staircase tower and attached rear dairy wing (formerly
free-standing). 2 storeys and attics. South front with advanced wings to each
end and recessed entrance to through passage. Windows to gable ends of wings are
12-pane sashes to ground and first floors, those to ground floor under segmental
heads, those to first floor with flush relieving arches. 2-light ovolo-moulded
mullions with hoodmoulds to attic. 2 similar 2-light mullions to recessed
section. Central doorway with moulded architrave and 6 panel door; gabled porch
on wooden piers. Datestone above porch and further eroded datestone above upper
window. 2 stone ridge stacks and 1 brick west end stack. 2, 3 and 4-light
fenestration of ovolo mullions to east front, staircase tower and dairy wing.
Interior. Central passage with ovolo-moulded architraves to doors, deep
chamfered beams in all ground floor rooms, inglenook in left-hand room, Tudor-
arched inner doorways, newel stair in tower and complete through-purlin collar
beam roof structure. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England : North Somerset and
Bristol, 1958).