BADGER STREET FARM, THURLBEAR

Sixsmith Map 1957

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Internet link to TDBC Listed Buildings - Orchard Portman

BADGER STREET FARMHOUSE, ORCHARD PORTMAN Grade : II List Entry Date : 21 February 1986 Farmhouse. C17, altered C18 and mid C19. Rendered over rubble, steeply pitched slate roof, overhanging eaves, shaped brackets, brick stacks with moulded caps gable ends, external stack with stair adjacent left, steeply pitched independent slate roofed addition right, hipped with C20 stack rising from eaves. Plan: 3-cell and cross passage, 2 gabled wings at rear, store and garage adjoining right. Two storeys, 4 bays, all C19 many-paned casements, 2-light casement in addition with garage doors. Interior not seen. Said to contain 12-panel compartment ceiling, cut by inserted wall with evidence of demolished stud and panel screen to cross passage, possibly rebuilt stone spiral stair to right of blocked left gable end fireplace, reused beams in 2 rooms to right have been reassembled in the manner of compartment ceilings. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, June 1982). Source: TDBC Online Listed Buildings - Orchard Portman.

Albert Payne at Badger Street Farm Thurlbear. c. 1930 Photograph taken from: "The Millennium Book of Somerset" 2000 edited by Tom Mayberry and Hilary Binding.

The farmhouse at Badger Street is let separately from the farm. The farm has been let to Mr. Grabham of Staple Farm since 1937. His son now manages it with the help of three men and a part-time tractor driver. The three cottages at Badger Street belong to the farm, the fourth labourer living at Upper Curland. There are 108 acres in Thurlbear and 48 1/2 lie in Staple Fitzpaine. Source: A History of Thurlbear. R. A. Sixsmith. (1957).

New signs for Badger Street and Winterwell erected August 2001 Photograph October 2001 by Jenny of Winterwell. The dwellings behind are Numbers 202/203/204/205 Badger Street in which live Mr and Mrs Searle, Mr and Mrs Steele, Mr and Mrs Lock and Ms Sunderland.