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HIGHER BROWNSHAM FARMHOUSE AND BARN ADJOINING TO NORTH-WEST

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1333156
Date first listed:: 20-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:: HIGHER BROWNSHAM FARMHOUSE AND BARN ADJOINING TO NORTH-WEST
Statutory Address:: HIGHER BROWNSHAM FARMHOUSE AND BARN ADJOINING TO NORTH-WEST

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1333156
Date first listed:: 20-Feb-1958
List Entry Name:: HIGHER BROWNSHAM FARMHOUSE AND BARN ADJOINING TO NORTH-WEST
Statutory Address 1:: HIGHER BROWNSHAM FARMHOUSE AND BARN ADJOINING TO NORTH-WEST

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: HIGHER BROWNSHAM FARMHOUSE AND BARN ADJOINING TO NORTH-WEST

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: Torridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Hartland
National Grid Reference:: SS 28536 25946

Details

HARTLAND BROWNSHAM SS 22 NE

2/161 Higher Brownsham Farmhouse and barn adjoining to north-west. 20.2.58

GV II*

House formerly farmhouse. Early C17 with later C17 and probably later C18 additions. Stone rubble walls rendered at the front. Gable-ended natural rag slate roof to house, asbestos to barn. Brick axial stack and large rubble stack at left gable-end with brick shaft. Plan: original plan is unclear since in its present form the house does not cnform to any standard plan types. It now consists of a larger roan to the left heated by a fireplace at its left end and through which the house is entered with a smaller room to its right heated by an axial stack which divides the 2 rooms. This room is actually in 2 parts and it is evident that its right-hand part was taken out of the adjoining barn which was probably added in the circa late C18. At the front of the left-hand room is a narrow wing which judging from a 1st floor doorframe is a later C17 addition - probably for service purposes. A C19 2-storey porch was built at the rear of the left-hand room and the right-hand room has been built out slightly at the rear and a staircase inserted behind the stack. Evidently this house has undergone a complex development and any interpretation of its plan form can only be tentative but one possible theory is that the house originally extended further to the left with a passage and lower room end and what now survives is the hall and inner room of a 3-room-and-through-passage plan house which was then further extended. There is some possible evidence of rebuilding at this lower gable-end but only an archaeological survey would reveal the original extent of this house. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front with barn attached at right-hand end and narrow wing projecting from left-hand end. On 1st floor to left is 3-light C20 small-paned casement, 12-pane early C19 hornless sash at centre and later C19 taller one to the right which is a half dormer. Below it is a taller C20 2-light casement and a fixed small-paned light to the centre. To the left is a C20 panelled and part-glazed door under slate hood. Extending in the same line to the right of the house is the barn which has a wide cart entrance at its left end with flanking buttresses and a smaller building projecting from its right-hand end. Wing projecting from left-hand end has 2 C19 12-pane sashes on the first floor and 2- light circa early C20 casements below. Irregular rear elevation has barn to left with small wing projecting from its end, single storey section to its right and gabled 2 storey porch projecting to right of centre. Mainly C19 sash windows with stair window with marginal glazing bars to left of porch. Entrance to porch is in its right-hand side. Probably circa early C20 single storey wing projecting to right of porch. The wide barn doorway re-uses 2 C17 ovolo-moulded ceiling beams on its lintels. Interior: on the ground floor there are few early features visible although fireplaces are probably covered up. Doorway into right-hand room has ovolo-moulded C17 wooden frame raised and hollow step stops. Chamfered ceiling beam with ogee stops in right-hand room. On the first floor of the narrow front wing is a blocked doorway with apparently C17 chamfered frame which has masons mitres. The most important feature of this house is the very fine decorative plaster ceiling in the chamber over the left-hand room dating circa 1620 - 40. It is designed in a pattern of 2 concentric circles of hearts formed by enriched ribs with running vine pattern. There are 4 hearts at the centre and 8 around the outside and in the 4 panels where the outer and inner hearts adjoin are 4 bowls of fruit in high relief - one of apples, one of oranges, one of lemons and one of pears. At the inner point of each heart is a spray of flowers, the one towards the rear wall also incorporates a human face. At the centre of the whole design is an unusual plaster pendant with 4 identical mens faces around it. A plaster frieze runs along the 2 end walls of the room, in a fragment on the front wall, with a design of heralidc shields and beasts. Over the outside end wall frieze is a moulded plaster cornice. The roof truss in this room consists of straight principals with a crossed apex and collar halved on with notched lap joint. This is not an easy building to understand but despite its confusing plan and development it survives in a fairly unspoilt state retaining a traditional external appearance and with a surprisingly high quality plaster ceiling. The house forms part of an unspoilt and picturesque hamlet.

Listing NGR: SS2853625946

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Legacy System number:: 91227
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.