Town Farmhouse
TOWN FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097317
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Town Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097317
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Town Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET
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:
- TOWN FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Abbotskerswell
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 85709 68788
Details
SX 86 NE ABBOTSKERSWELL MAIN STREET Abbotskerswell 3/22 Town Farmhouse - 23.8.55 GV II Farmhouse, now house, formerly 2 cottages. C16 with probably C18 rear wing, C20 extension. Rendered rubble walls exposed at side. Hipped thatched roof. Large slightly projecting rendered rubble rear lateral stack, similar stack at left gable end, brick stack to right hand gable end. Originally 3 room and through-passage plan lower end to the right, with screens passage and rear lateral fireplace to hall. Gable end fireplace to lower room. Inner room possibly unheated originally. Unheated rear wing added behind inner room probably in C18. Was apparently coverted into 3 cottages in C19, then became 2, at present under 1 ownership but one end is self-contained. Passage has been removed. Probably C20 outshut at rear of hall. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 5 window front of C20 2-light casements with glazing bars. 2 C20 glazed doors, one towards left end and one to right of centre to former passage under rustic thatch porch. At rear is wing to right and outshut to its left. Interior: Plain wooden lintel to lower end fireplace, probably C18. C16 plank and muntin screen survives between lower room and former passage, partially concealed. It has chamfered head beam and muntins with mason's mitres and diagonal cut stops. Doorway is chamfered with depressed 4-centred head. Hall fireplace has chamfered wood lintel partially filled in underneath obscuring stops. Chamfered cross beam with hollow step stops, a few similarly decorated joists survive. Roof space not inspected but according to owner contains rough straight principals with lapped and pegged collars, probably C18/C19. This house occupies a prominent position in the village centre to which its traditional facade makes an important contribution; the surviving early features inside suggest it was built as a good quality farmhouse.
Listing NGR: SX8570968788
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 84726
- 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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