Barlinch Farmhouse And Remains Of St Nicholas Priory Adjoining To West

Barlinch Farmhouse and the remains of St Nicholas Priory are located in Brompton Regis. The farmhouse incorporates medieval remains, likely integrated into a structure built in the 16th to 17th century, which has been altered and expanded to the east in the 19th century. The wall to the left of the eastern stack was built out, and the house was refenestrated in the mid-20th century.

The farmhouse is constructed of random rubble local stone, with roughcast at the rear. It features three slate roofs at different levels, a stone stack on the left gable end, and a large roughcast lateral stack to the left of the entrance, which has a slate-roofed bread oven projection. Another lateral stack is located to the right in a set-back wing. The irregularly shaped building faces south and is two storeys high. The left side has one bay, with the wall breaking forward and single bays flanking the lateral stack. The right side is set back and has one and two bays, all featuring 20th-century two-light casements, except for an early 19th-century leaded two-light window in the first-floor end bay on the right. The concrete sills are modern, and there is a 20th-century door to the left of the westerly stack, with a slate-roofed pentice porch supported by a wooden column. A plank door is located in the end bay on the right.

The remains of the priory, constructed of random rubble local stone, were heavily overgrown with ivy at the time of the survey in June 1985 and obscured by vegetation. The walls rise to a maximum height of about 5 meters and form roughly two adjoining L-plan shapes, with evidence of buttresses and window jambs on the south front, extending approximately 30 meters in length. According to previous records, a small piece of tracery is said to have been inserted into a modern wall of a farm building adjoining to the north. The priory of St Nicholas was founded by the Austin Canons around 1174 and was affiliated with Cleeve Abbey before its dissolution around 1537. The walls of the priory are designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument (Somerset County No 182).