Blackmoor Farmhouse, Cannington

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Blackmoor Farmhouse
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Location within Somerset
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Town or city Cannington, Somerset
Country England
Coordinates 51°08′30″N3°04′43″W / 51.1416°N 3.0786°W / 51.1416; -3.0786 Coordinates: 51°08′30″N3°04′43″W / 51.1416°N 3.0786°W / 51.1416; -3.0786
Completed c. 1480

Blackmoor Farmhouse at Cannington, Somerset, England and the attached chapel, was built around 1480 for Thomas Tremayll. It was designated as a Grade I listed building on 29 March 1963. [1] The farm now offers bed and breakfast accommodation and is a wedding venue. [2] [3]

Cannington, Somerset village in the United Kingdom

Cannington is a village and civil parish 3 miles (5 km) north-west of Bridgwater in the Sedgemoor district of Somerset, England. It lies on the west bank of the River Parret, and contains the hamlet of Edstock.

Somerset County of England

Somerset is a county in South West England which borders Gloucestershire and Bristol to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east and Devon to the south-west. It is bounded to the north and west by the Severn Estuary and the Bristol Channel, its coastline facing southeastern Wales. Its traditional border with Gloucestershire is the River Avon. Somerset's county town is Taunton.

Listed building Collection of protected architectural creations in the United Kingdom

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

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Building

The farmhouse was originally built for Thomas Tremayll as a manor house, with integrated chapel, in approximately 1480. During the 16th century a porch was added, as well as a service wing. The interior was altered in the 19th century, adding windows to the rear of the property at the same time. The two story farmhouse is made of red sandstone rubble, with roughly cut quoins and rubble chimneystacks. The roof is slate ending in coped verges. [1]

The front of the building has a number of bays ending in the chapel wing to the north, which includes tall lancet arch windows as well as an ogee-headed moulded stone door frame. The main entrance to the house is in one of the bays, with a studded door, in a similar ogee-headed moulded stone door frame. On the south side of the house there is a garderobe, also two storeys high, with a turret to the rear. [1]

Ogee S-curved form used in woodworking moulding and architecture

An ogee ( ) is a curve shaped somewhat like an S, consisting of two arcs that curve in opposite senses, so that the ends are parallel, or roughly so. It is a kind of sigmoid curve.

Garderobe room in medieval castles, usually for toilet

Garderobe is a historic term for a room in a medieval castle. The Oxford English Dictionary gives as its first meaning a store-room for valuables, but also acknowledges "by extension, a private room, a bed-chamber; also a privy". Its most common use now is as a term for a castle toilet.

The building has many architectural features of its period with the roof structure comprising a series of jointed crucks together with some curved wind-braces still in place. There are coffered ceilings and a plank and muntin screen with soot blackening to one side now in one of the upstairs rooms (possibly re-sited from being a screens passage at the entrance to the main hall where one would expect to see this type of structure). [4]

Cruck curved timber used as roof support

A cruck or crook frame is a curved timber, one of a pair, which supports the roof of a building, used particularly in England. This type of timber framing consists of long, generally naturally curved, timber members that lean inwards and form the ridge of the roof. These posts are then generally secured by a horizontal beam which then forms an "A" shape. Several of these "crooks" are constructed on the ground and then lifted into position. They are then joined together by either solid walls or cross beams which aid in preventing racking.

Wind brace

In architecture, wind braces are diagonal braces to tie the rafters of a roof together and prevent racking. In medieval roofs they are arched, and run from the principal rafters to catch the purlins.

Coffer Each one of the concave spaces, usually with moldings and a ceiling in the center, of a coffered ceiling or ceiling.

A coffer in architecture is a series of sunken panels in the shape of a square, rectangle, or octagon in a ceiling, soffit or vault. A series of these sunken panels was often used as decoration for a ceiling or a vault, also called caissons ('boxes"), or lacunaria, so that a coffered ceiling can be called a lacunar ceiling: the strength of the structure is in the framework of the coffers.


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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Blackmoor Farmhouse, Cannington". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
  2. ↑ "Wedding venue". Dyer Farm. Archived from the original on 5 November 2010. Retrieved 20 November 2010.
  3. ↑ "Blackmore Farm". Cannington Online. Archived from the original on 31 July 2010. Retrieved 20 November 2010.
  4. ↑ "Blackmore Farm Accommodation". Dyer Farm. Retrieved 20 November 2010.
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