Furze Farmhouse
FURZE FARMHOUSE
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1039169
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Furze Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- FURZE FARMHOUSE
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1039169
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Furze Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- FURZE FARMHOUSE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FURZE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chittlehampton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 64522 26929
Details
CHITTLEHAMPTON SS 62 NW
1/90 Furze Farmhouse -
- II Farmhouse, now used as stables. Probably early C16, remodelled in late C16 with C20 alterations. Rendered stone rubble and cob. Pantiled roof with gable ends. Axial hall stack of stone rubble backing onto passage with tapered cap. Brick stack at right end. Plan consists of cross-passage at left end, hall to right with axial stack backing onto passage with inner room at right end. Continuous outshut to rear. The roof structure appears to have been replaced in C18 or C19, but was not fully accessible at time of survey. The inner face of the left gable end wall (to the lower side of the cross-passage) is smoke-blackened however and suggests the hall and passage were originally open to the roof. Solid wall partition rises to apex of roof between hall and inner room; the gable end stack heating the latter is a C19 insertion. The hall window has also been built out as a 2-storey bay projection, probably in C17. The continuous rear outshut containing a straight run staircase at the left end is of thick cob wall construction possibly added in late C17 or C18. There is no exposed evidence for a doorway from the passage to the lower end, a C19 barn being attached at this end. _ 2 storeys. 3-window range. Principally 2-light casements 6 panes per light. C19 doorway to cross-passage to left of bread-oven projection. Hall and inner room ground floor windows enlarged to doorways. Interior. Inner room floor removed but chamfered axial ceiling beam survives. Hall principally stripped in C20 but retains open fireplace with bread oven. C16 elliptical arched timber doorway with chamfered surround between hall and inner roof. Late C17/early C18 straight-headed doorway between hall and rear outshut. Good C16 4-centred arched chamfered door surround to upper storey between hall and former inner room chamber. C19 grates to inner room and former chamber over. Chamfered door surround to doorway from hall to rear outshut. Roof: There are no roof trusses, the purlins being entirely carried on the solid wall partitions.
Listing NGR: SS6452226929
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 443231
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 22-Jul-2026 at 23:24:37.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.