Site Event/Activity record EEM14617 - 2016: HBA - Throat Farmhouse

An historical and architectural assessment and record of Throat Farm, Luxborough was undertaken in 2016. The property consists of the house, an open barn to the south, 8 acres of paddock and 17 acres of woodland. The work consisted of a site visit to assess the standing fabric of the house and compile a photographic record and visits to the Somerset Heritage Centre. Throat is a shrunken farm site, representing a small farmstead, possibly comprising several buildings in the later medieval and early modern period. From the late 18th century the land (along with that of several other similar small farms nearby) was absorbed by the larger farm of Westcott to the east, and the buildings were put to other purposes, in the case of this house as subsidiary farm accommodation. At some stage, the house was rebuilt as two cottages to a ‘mirror image’ plan, likely in the later 18th or early 19th Century to form a pair of estate cottages, and was subsequently modified through later 19th Century refurbishments. In the late 20th Century (c.1987–1993),the two cottages were converted into a single dwelling with associated landscaping works to form the rear ‘drang’. The result is that little of historic interest survives in the interior with the exception of the chimney stack with back-to back fireplaces and the remains of truncated bread ovens in their northern reveals.