Combeshead Farmhouse
COMBESHEAD FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098262
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Combeshead Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- COMBESHEAD FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098262
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Combeshead Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- COMBESHEAD 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:
- COMBESHEAD FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Luppitt
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 16450 07444
Details
LUPPITT ST 10 NE 6/41 Combeshead Farmhouse - - II Farmhouse. Mid C17 with late C18 - early C19 refurbishment and extensions. Plastered local stone rubble; stone rubble stacks topped with C19 and C20 brick; coated slate roof, formerly thatch, corrugated iron to rear outshot. Plan and development: 6-room plan farmhouse facing west-north-west, say west, and built across a gentle hillslope overlooking the farm courtyard. There is a small unheated room at the left (north) end. Alongside is a parlour with an axial stack backing onto the unheated end room. This parlour is separated from the former kitchen by a through-passage. The former kitchen has an axial stack backing onto another unheated room. This unheated room (now used as a kitchen) was probably a dairy or buttery originally. At the right (south) end there are 2 small unheated rooms which are not connected to the main house but each has its own external doorway. These have always been service rooms used as woodstore, cellar, workshop, toolstore and the like. These 2 service rooms and the unheated room the other end were added to the mid C17 3-room-and-through-passage plan in the late C18 - early C19. The farmhouse is 2 storeys with a C20 rear outshot. Exterior: irregular 5-window front of various C20 casements, the latest without glazing bars. There are now 4 front doorways. The passage front doorway is left of centre and contains a late C19 part-glazed 4-panel door behind a C20 porch with monopitch roof. Further right there is a secondary doorway into the present kitchen (the former dairy/buttery) which has a late C19 plank door behind another C20 porch. The 2 service rooms at the right end also have C19 plank doors. The roof is gable- end to right and hipped to left. Interior: is largely the result of the late C18 - early C19 refurbishment and later modernisations. Nevertheless the mid C17 house appears to be well-preserved. The rooms either side of the through-passage, the former kitchen and parlour, both have chamfered crossbeams and scroll stops. Both fireplaces are blocked but the former kitchen fireplace has its chamfered oak lintel exposed. The roof from end to end dates from the late C18 - early C19; a series of A-frame trusses with pegged and spiked lap-jointed collars and X-apexes.
Listing NGR: ST1645007444
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86596
- 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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