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Sockety Farmhouse

A Grade II Listed Building in Merriott, Somerset

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.9198 / 50°55'11"N

Longitude: -2.7968 / 2°47'48"W

OS Eastings: 344084

OS Northings: 113673

OS Grid: ST440136

Mapcode National: GBR MG.Q78L

Mapcode Global: FRA 561N.S90

Plus Code: 9C2VW693+W7

Entry Name: Sockety Farmhouse

Listing Date: 4 February 1958

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1345965

English Heritage Legacy ID: 262403

ID on this website: 101345965

Location: Townsend, Somerset, TA16

County: Somerset

District: South Somerset

Civil Parish: Merriott

Traditional County: Somerset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset

Church of England Parish: Merriott

Church of England Diocese: Bath and Wells

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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

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