Venmoor Farmhouse
VENMOOR FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104171
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Venmoor Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- VENMOOR FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104171
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Venmoor Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- VENMOOR 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:
- VENMOOR 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 00344 86520
Details
SY 08 NW WOODBURY
2/159 Venmoor Farmhouse (alias Venmore) - GV II
Farmhouse. 1840s. Brick; hipped slate roof with red ridge tiles. Rectangular double-depth plan house with principal rooms on either side of central entrance hall and with contemporary wing to right (south-west); double external end stacks. 2 storeys. Front: symmetrical 3-window range. Overhanging eaves. 1st floor windows with 12- pane hornless sashes, under depressed window arches. Ground floor: tripartite 4:12:4 pane hornless sash window flanking central panelled door with rectangular fanlight; hipped, slated open porch on simple chamfered posts. The right-hand extension, recessed, forms a 2-window range, with 12-pane hornless sash windows (replaced to ground floor) under depressed arches, identical to main range. Left- hand elevation: well composed; the external stacks have white (Portland) stone capitals; between them are two 12-pane hornless sash windows to each floor. Venmoor Farm was the earliest example in Woodbury of the mid-C19 improved farmsteads built by the Rolle estate.
Listing NGR: SY0034486520
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 88576
- 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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