Knowle Farmhouse
KNOWLE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098087
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Knowle Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- KNOWLE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098087
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Knowle Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- KNOWLE 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:
- KNOWLE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Whimple
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 04060 97716
Details
WHIMPLE KNOWLE CROSS SY 09 NW 10/246 Knowle Farmhouse - GV II
Farmhouse. Early - mid C16 with major later C16 and C17 modernisations, refurbished in the late C19. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble stacks topped with C19 and C20 brick; slate roof, formerly thatch. Plan and development: 4-room-and-through-passage plan house facing south-east. At the right (north-east) end is an inner room parlour with a gable-end stack. Next to it is the hall with an axial stack backing onto the passage. Lower end kitchen with projecting rear lateral stack and and at the left end a small with an end stack. This stack is a late C19 insertion. This was formerly an unheated dairy or buttery. The roofspace was inaccessible at the time of this survey and therefore it was not possible to determine the early structural history of the house. Nevertheless smoke-blackened timbers are reported here and therefore the house was probably built in the early C16 and then the hall at least was open to the roof and heated by an open hearth fire. Also many of the early features are hidden behind late C19 and C20 plaster. 2 storeys with C19 lean-to outshots to rear. Exterior: irregular 4-window front of late C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars. The passage front doorway is slightly left of centre and it contains a late C19 part-glazed 6-panel door benind a C20 gabled rustic porch. Secondary doorway at the left end contains a C20 door. Roof is gable-ended. Interior: is largely the result of the late C19 modernisation but this appears to have superficial. All the fireplaces are blocked by C19 and C20 grates. The 3 main rooms have exposed crossbeams. The inner room parlour beam is chamfered with straight cut stops, the others are chamfered with scroll stops. The hall/inner room partition is-plastered but it is said to be an oak plank-and-muntin screen. The roofspace was not available for inspection but plastered jointed cruck trusses show on the first floor. Great care should be taken here during any alterations or modernisations lest C16 or C17 features be disturbed.
Listing NGR: SY0406097716
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86986
- 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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