Whitcombe Farmhouse
WHITCOMBE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097718
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Whitcombe Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WHITCOMBE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097718
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Whitcombe Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITCOMBE 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:
- WHITCOMBE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kenn
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 92767 84190
Details
KENN SX 98 SW
5/147 Whitcombe Farmhouse
- II
Former farmhouse. Circa late C16, possibly a remodelling of an earlier house. Whitewashed rendered cob on stone rubble footings ; slate roof (formerly thatched) gabled at ends ; end stacks and axial stack to main block, the axial stack with a stone shaft with drip ledges. Plan: 3 room and cross passage main range, lower end kitchen to the left, hall stack backing on to the passage, crosswing containing unheated service rooms at the left end. The stair rises in a turret at the rear of the hall but has been altered. The house may have originated as an open hall but the apex of the roof was destroyed by fire in the early C20 (information from owner). A small cottage adjoining at the right end is probably a C19 addition. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 6 window front with steps up to a C20 timber front door to left of centre. C19 and C20 timber casement windows, except for the fourth window from the left on the first floor which is a late C16 or C17 4-light timber mullioned window. The rear elevation has a stair projection at the rear right and 4 casement windows with a C20 door into the lower end room. Interior: Richly carpentered. The hall has a good original fireplace with stone jambs and a chamfered lintel with unusual rounded stops ; step-stopped crossbeam and exposed joists; plank and muntin oak screen between hall and inner room with chamfered muntins stopped off at hall bench level. The inner room has an exposed chamfered crossbeam and joists, the fireplace rebuilt in the C20. The kitchen (to the left) has a rough exposed crossbeam and exposed joists, the fireplace has been rebuilt, the lintel probably original, 2 bread ovens. The passage has a plank and muntin screen to the lower end partition, the doorway has been moved but the original doorframe with an arched lintel survives. The service wing, formerly 2 rooms but now 1, has exposed carpentry of a probably C18 date. Roof: Apex said to be burnt away (information from owner) but the remains of side- pegged jointed cruck trusses survive, visible on the first floor. A late C16 or earlier traditional farmhouse with good interior details.
Listing NGR: SX9276784190
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 85814
- 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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