Jessamine House and Long Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1986. A Medieval Cottage, farmbuilding. 3 related planning applications.
Jessamine House and Long Cottage
- WRENN ID
- scarred-lancet-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1986
- Type
- Cottage, farmbuilding
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late medieval cottage with farm buildings, now two separate dwellings, located in Stoke St Gregory village. The core of the cottage dates to the late medieval period, with a ceiled interior from the 16th century. A possible 18th-century farm building was added, significantly altered and extended in the 20th century, including raising the roof. The construction varies; the main cottage has roughcast over rubble and cob, while the east gable end is reportedly rebuilt in brick. The farm building is said to be roughcast over brick with upper courses of rubble. It has a double Roman tiled roof with decorative ridge tiles and brick stacks at the gable ends of both ranges, and another to the left of the entrance.
The building forms an "L" shape; the original open hall house was divided into three cells with a cross passage, and includes a lean-to west gable, with a farm building abutting north-west and a porch in the angle. It is one and a half storeys high, with three- and two-light dormers below the eaves to the left of the entrance, and ground floor two- and three-light casement windows to the left. A 20th-century porch with a catslide roof and a 20th-century door are present, and to the right is a former farm building with a small, semi-circular headed window on the ground floor. A single-storey lean-to addition sits in the north gable end. The south front of Jessamine House has been significantly altered in the 20th century.
The interior is not visible but is said to contain two pairs of smoke-blackened jointed cruck trusses forming the central bay of the house. A moulded Ham stone lintel is over the cross passage fireplace, and the gable end grates are later additions.
Historically, the building's proximity to the Church of St Gregory and its age suggest it may have been the Priest's house, or the poor house.
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