Higher Greendale Farmhouse
HIGHER GREENDALE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104169
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Greendale Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER GREENDALE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104169
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Greendale Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER GREENDALE 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:
- HIGHER GREENDALE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Woodbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 02214 89827
Details
SY 08 NW WOODBURY
2/73 Higher Greendale Farmhouse - - II
Farmhouse. C15 or early C16, with later alterations. Roughcast cob on stone footings; gabled-end slate roof. 3 room, through-passage plan to house, the higher end to the right of the passage. The house was originally open to the roof as it is smoke-blackened throughout. The hall was the last room to receive a 1st floor, probably in the C17 when the rear lateral stack was inserted. This stack probably also served a wing to the rear of the hall which then served as a kitchen (as it still does; if there is a fireplace it is not visible). This wing, like the house, is of cruck construction and was open to the roof until heightened and floored in circa 1937; whether the roof was sooted or not is unknown. A single-storey C19 wing stands forward of the original service end. Inner room unheated until late insertion of angle stack. 2 storeys. Front: 3 window range; 2- and 3-light C19 casements to 1st floor; ground floor: 2 casement windows, of 4-lights to hall, 3-lights to inner room. Rear wing with 2 early C19 ground floor casement windows with saddle bars. Rear doorway to passage with chamfered lintel mitred into jambs which are now concealed. Interior: passage with chamfered lintel to former doorway into service end. Hall, 1 and 2-half beams, running axially, chamfered with step stops; fireplace with chamfered lintel, its stops removed when C18 moulded mantelpiece added. Planked cupboard doors with strap hinges. Late-C17 or early-C18 fielded panel door to 1st floor room above passage, with HL hinges. Hall 1st floor raised about 10". Roof and internal partitions: 2 jointed crucks, pegged and morticed at apex, trenched purlins, slightly cranked collars and large diagonal ridge piece; heavily smoke-blackened throughout, including rafters. Sooted thatch and battening was removed when the roof was slated. Partition of lath and plaster at higher end of hall is clean to inner room; another, lightly sooted towards hall, stands over the passage, both are late medieval insertions, and do not,relate at all to either of the crucks. A third cruck, probably a jointed base cruck, visible in wing.
Listing NGR: SY0221489827
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 88573
- 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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