Higher Wadden Farmhouse

HIGHER WADDEN FARMHOUSE, SOUTHLEIGH ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1098539
Date first listed:
19-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:
Higher Wadden Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
HIGHER WADDEN FARMHOUSE, SOUTHLEIGH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1098539
Date first listed:
19-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:
Higher Wadden Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
HIGHER WADDEN FARMHOUSE, SOUTHLEIGH ROAD

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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
HIGHER WADDEN FARMHOUSE, SOUTHLEIGH ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Devon
District:
East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Colyton
National Grid Reference:
SY 21558 94005

Details

SY 29 SW COLYTON SOUTHLEIGH ROAD 13/240 Higher Wadden Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. Circa C16/17. Rendered stone. Corrugted iron roof with hipped and gabled ends. Two storeys. Main range has three casement windows to front and a circa C17 gabled wing at right angles to right (south-east) with three light ovolo moulded stone mullion window with dripmould and chamfers. Tudor arched doorway to east now enclosed by another gabled wing on this side. The front has two ramped buttresses and modern glazed porch in the angle. Brick chimney stacks on rear wall and on gable end of wing. Interior: Moulded stone arched chimneypiece in west end with carved spandrels. Central room has fireplace with massive moulded bressummer to chimney on rear wall. South-east wing has very high ceiling with stopped chamfer beam and timber bressummer to large fireplace.

Listing NGR: SY2155894005

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
87889
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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