Dainton Farm
DAINTON FARM
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097282
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Dainton Farm
- Statutory Address:
- DAINTON FARM
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097282
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Dainton Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- DAINTON FARM
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:
- DAINTON FARM
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ipplepen
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 85122 66671
Details
SX 86 NE IPPLEPEN DAINTON 3/129 Dainton Farm (including - adjoining cottage) GV II Farmhouse with cottage at one end. Probably C17, remodelled in C19 with wing added. Rendered rubble walls. Asbestos slate roof gabled at either end hipped to wing at front. 3 rendered rubble stacks, one projecting from each gable end cut off at roof apex and rear lateral stack with brick shaft. Brick shaft at side of wing. Originally 3-room and through-passage plan with lower room to left. Hall heated by rear lateral stack and lower and inner room heated by gable end stacks. Newel stairs at rear of inner room. Remodelled internally in circa early C19 and wing added at front of left-hand, lower room. Probably C19 outshuts along the rear wall. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front with wing to left. On first floor the 2 left-hand windows are C19 2-light casements with glazing bars, the right-hand one is in a wood mullion window frame. To the right is C20 2-light metal frame casement in gabled ½ dormer. On ground floor is 3-light C19 casement with glazing bars to the left and a similar single light window to its right beyond which is C20 glazed door. To the right of that is C20 2-light metal frame casement. To the far left is C20 plank door, probably to original passage with circa early C19 wing, projecting to its left which has an early C20 2-light casement on the ground floor of the front wall and first floor of the inner face of wing. This section of the house forms a separate cottage. Interior of farmhouse end inspected. The right-hand, probably former inner, room has a moulded plaster ceiling of single ribs in a geometric design with fleurons at the corners. The centre has been damaged. C19 corner cupboard with arched head and wall cupboard adjoining fireplace. Room above has moulded plaster cornice which also runs either side of the collar to the roof truss which projects down into the ceiling. Damaged decorative plasterwork above fireplace has flower motif. Interesting, original roof trusses survive which consist of substantial straight principals with cranked collars halved and pegged which have a small chamfer on their soffit. Principal rafters are morticed at the apex and have 10 purlins from wall plate to ridge level. It is a 10 bay roof of open trusses, all stained dark so that it is impossible to tell whether they are smoke-blackened. Sources: Roof description - J Schofield.
Listing NGR: SX8512266671
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 84836
- 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.
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