Weavers Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1986. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Weavers Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sombre-parapet-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Weavers Farmhouse is a late medieval farmhouse that was ceiled in the 16th century, with the walls raised and the building reroofed in the 17th century. It underwent restoration and refenestration in the late 20th century. The structure is built of random rubble Ham stone and local grey sandstone, featuring a double Roman tiled roof, brick stacks at the gable ends, and a brick rebuild on the stone at the top right of the cross passage.
The farmhouse has an unusual plan with shallow projections in the end bays at the rear, creating two rooms at the higher end of the hall. To the left of the cross passage, there is another room with a small room that opens out of it in the projection, which contains stairs. The building is two storeys high and has four bays, with all windows being 20th-century three and four-light casements. Some of the ground floor openings are under wooden lintels. The right end bay features a full-height raking buttress, and there is a single-storey raking buttress between the first and second bays on the right. The entrance is located in the second bay on the left, with a studded plank door that has an inset light.
The interior has not been seen but is said to contain a 16-panel moulded beam compartment ceiling that has been cut by inserted stairs against the rear wall, replacing the original spiral stair. There is also a deeply moulded lintel above the fireplace in the hall, along with remains of a bread oven and a curing chamber in the kitchen fireplace. The roof features a collar beam structure, with evidence of an earlier jointed cruck truss roof. This farmhouse has been the subject of numerous VAG Reports, and its variation on the three-cell and cross passage plan is shared by Payne's Farmhouse.
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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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