Southlands Farmhouse
SOUTHLANDS FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098252
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Southlands Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTHLANDS FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098252
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Southlands Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTHLANDS 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:
- SOUTHLANDS FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dunkeswell
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 15018 07504
Details
DUNKESWELL ST 10 NE 6/18 Southlands Farmhouse - - II Farmhouse. Probably C17 (maybe earlier in parts), modernised with an extension in the mid-late C19. Local stone rubble witn plastered front; stone rubble stacks topped with C19 and C20 brick; thatch roof to main block, slate roof to the extension. Plan: 3-room plan main block built down a hillslope and facing south. Uphill, at tne left (west) end is a parlour witn a gable-end stack. Entrance lobby and C19 stair between this parlour and the centre room. This centre room is the dining room. A projection to rear of it is said to contain the old stair and probably included a small buttery. The room has an axial stack backing onto the kitchen, the rignt (east) end room, which has a gable-end stack. A secondary service block projects at right angles in front of the right (kitchen) end and includes 2 unheated rooms (converted to a cottage in the C20) and agricultural store with hayloft over at the end. Since no proper internal inspection was available at the time of this survey it is not possible to determine the early structural development of the house. Nevertheless it seems possible that the house began as some form of open hall house in the C16 and it is easy to interpret the layout of the main block as derived from a 3-room-and-through-passage model. It is now 2 storeys throughout. Exterior: 3-window front of C19 and C20 casements, most with glazing bars but the oldest 2 (on the first floor) contain rectangular panes of leaded glass. There is a symmetrical arrangement about the front doorway which is left of centre and contains a part-glazed late C19 door. The roof is gable-ended, so too is the service block roof. The service block contains C20 casements with glazing bars and a C20 door. Interior: no inspection was available at the time of this survey but the farmer reports that no carpentry is exposed on the ground floor and that the fireplaces are blocked by C19 and C20 grates. The joinery detail is all C19 and C20. It would seem therefore that the interior is largely the result of the late C19 modernisation. Therefore a full internal inspection should be undertaken before any major modernisation work or alterations lest C16 or C17 features be damaged. The roof structure may provide evidence of late medieval origins.
Listing NGR: ST1501807504
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86573
- 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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