HOUGHTON FARMHOUSE INCLUDING COB WALLS ADJOINING NORTH AND SOUTH

HOUGHTON FARMHOUSE INCLUDING COB WALLS ADJOINING NORTH AND SOUTH, OTTERY ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1097500
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: HOUGHTON FARMHOUSE INCLUDING COB WALLS ADJOINING NORTH AND SOUTH
Statutory Address:: HOUGHTON FARMHOUSE INCLUDING COB WALLS ADJOINING NORTH AND SOUTH, OTTERY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1097500
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: HOUGHTON FARMHOUSE INCLUDING COB WALLS ADJOINING NORTH AND SOUTH
Statutory Address 1:: HOUGHTON FARMHOUSE INCLUDING COB WALLS ADJOINING NORTH AND SOUTH, OTTERY ROAD

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:: HOUGHTON FARMHOUSE INCLUDING COB WALLS ADJOINING NORTH AND SOUTH, OTTERY ROAD

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

County:: Devon
District:: East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Newton Poppleford and Harpford
National Grid Reference:: SY 09032 88221

Details

OTTERTON OTTERY ROAD SY 08 NE 3/187 Houghton Farmhouse including cob - walls adjoining north and south - II Farmhouse. Probably C17, refurbished and extended in 1870 according to a date plaque. The C17 part is plastered cob on stone rubble footings; has stone rubble stacks, one disused, the other topped with C19 brick; thatch roof. The 1870 work is brick with slate roof. The house faces south. The original part has a 2-room plan with central stair. The right room has a gable end stack and the left room has a projecting front lateral stack (now disused). On the left (western) end and set well back from the front is the C19 1-room plan extension with gable end stack; it is now a self-contained cottage. C19 outshots across rear of main block. Main block has regular 2-window front of C20 casements with glazing bars and central part-glazed door in the centre. At the right end there is a slate-roofed oven projection and at the left end the projecting stack. The brick extension also has a 2-window front and a doorway near the right end. The windows are C20 casements without glazing bars and contemporary plank door. Both roofs are gable-ended. The chimney shaft of the extension has a limestone plaque inscribed with the initials of Mark Rolle and the date 1870. Interior not available for inspection at time of survey but apparently little carpentry detail is exposed and fireplaces are blocked. Left room has a soffit- chamfered crossbeam and, according to Devon SMR, roof has possible jointed cruck construction. From the right (eastern) end high plastered cob walls with rubble footings and corrugated iron coping extend a short distance north and south alongside the road. Source. Devon SMR.

Listing NGR: SY0903288221

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 86388
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.