Description

GREAT SOMERFORD TOP STREET
ST 98 SE
3/218 Brook Farmhouse
12.12.51
GV II
Farmhouse, C17 refronted 1803, roughcast with ashlar dressings and
stone slate hipped roof. End stacks. Two storeys and attic, 5-
window range alternately of paired and single 12-pane sashes in
flush ashlar surrounds. Half-glazed door in fourth bay with
traceried fanlight in Roman Doric columned open-pedimented surround
Plinth, band, rusticated quoins, moulded cornice and parapet. Two
hipped dormers. Rear has two dormers, wall-face stack to centre
and hipped rear wing each side with dormers. South east wing has
roughcast side walls. Ends of main range have rainwater heads
dated TPW 1803. Said to have been a C17 house bought by John Pyke
in mid C18 and refronted for Thomas Pyke, died 1815.
(P. Hobbs, Somerford Magna, 1982 33 and 41)

Listing NGR: ST9658983126

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26496147

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)