Blue Ball Farmhouse
BLUE BALL FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098149
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Blue Ball Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BLUE BALL FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098149
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Blue Ball Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLUE BALL 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:
- BLUE BALL FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Payhembury
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 09459 01188
Details
PAYHEMBURY ST 00 SE 3/79 Blue Ball Farmhouse - - II
Farmhouse. Late C17, mid C19 dairy outshot, modernised circa 1985. Plastered walls, most is plastered cob on stone rubble footings but much of the front is stone rubble; stone rubble or cob stack with C19 brick chimneyshaft; slate roof with diamond pattern, formerly thatch. Plan: 3-room lobby entrance plan house facing south. At the right end is a small room with an end stack. This stack is an insertion. It was a dairy or buttery originally. Next to it is the former kitchen and at the left (west) end a parlour. An axial stack between the former kitchen and parlour serves back-to-back fireplaces and there is a lobby entrance in front of this stack. This bay is broken very slightly forward from the rest of the front. A winder stair rises in a turret projecting to rear of the stack. Circa 1985 a C19 dairy block projecting to rear from the right end was converted to a kitchen and service outshots built across the back of the house. The main house is 2 storeys. Exterior: 1:1:2-window front of C19 oak-framed casements with glazing bars and including, first floor left end an original oak 3-light frame with flat-faced mullions. (There is another similar original window to rear lighting the stairs). The front doorway is in the projecting bay left of centre and it contains a C19 plank door. The roof is hipped both ends. Interior: contains a great detail of late C17 carpentry detail. The parlour has a roughly chamfered axial beam; it was probably plastered originally. The fireplace here is plastered but has its original chamfered oak lintel with the remains of scroll stops. The former kitchen crossbeam is chamfered with bar-scroll-nick stops. It has a larger plastered fireplace with a plain oak lintel. It includes a large bread oven which is housed under the rising staircase. Old timber gun brackets are fixed to the chimneybreast. No carpentry shows in the former buttery/dairy. The staircase balustrade is C17 in style and apparently reuses lengths of the original handrail. The fireplace in the chamber over the former kitchen is original; it is brick with curving pentan (back) and has a plain oak lintel. Roof is carried on original A-frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed collars. The present kitchen has plain C19 carpentry details.
Listing NGR: ST0945901188
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86836
- 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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