Taylor's Farmhouse
TAYLOR'S FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097612
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Taylor's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- TAYLOR'S FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097612
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Taylor's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- TAYLOR'S 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:
- TAYLOR'S FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brampford Speke
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 92587 98517
Details
BRAMPFORD SPEKE SX 99 NW 3/14 Taylor's Farmhouse 11.11.52 - II Large farmhouse (the main range 33 metres long). Early C16, or earlier, with C17 alterations and additions. Cob, rendered, on stone plinth, with hipped thatched roof. Given the extreme length of the left-hand room relative to the rest of the house, and the unfinished character of the beams in that room, Taylor's may well have been originally a longhouse, with the shippon to the left of the through passage, the hall and other higher-end rooms, under a taller roof-ridge line to the right, and with a C17 back wing, possibly a kitchen extension. 2 axial stacks, one left-hand external end stack, and an internal lateral stack to the rear wing. 2 storeys throughout. Front: main doorway lies left of centre, with 3 windows on the left to each storey, three to the right at ground-floor level and four above. All upper floor windows are set high, 6 under eyebrow eaves. Casements replaced except for 1st floor window, which is of 4 lights with oval moulded jambs and mullions. To the rear, a newel stair-turret occupies the corner formed by the wing and the main range. The lower-end rear elevation has a pantiled lean-to along its full extent. Left-hand room (possibly the shippon before conversion) with 5 heavy beams, all rough and unshaped. Through passage with concealed lath and plaster screens. Lath and plaster partitions also between main rooms at higher-end and a rear corridor, fireplace (altered) backing onto passage with site of former oven and smoking chamber now forming a 3.3 metre blocked space. Right-hand rooms with heavily chamfered beams, one (in extreme right-hand end room) with central support and mortices indicating a former partition. Between the two axial stacks are three jointed crucks (two revealed, one ceiled), side-pegged, and these together with the raised 1st floor level at this point mark the position of the original open hall. (Roof ceiled and not accessible). Hall and lower-end also with rafters and bench purlins. Back wing ground-floor room with 3 heavily-chamfered beams and an unchamfered fireplace lintel.
Listing NGR: SX9258798517
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86065
- 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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