Higher Venmoor Farmhouse and Attached Barn to Rear
HIGHER VENMOOR FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN TO REAR, GILBROOK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104190
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Venmoor Farmhouse and Attached Barn to Rear
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER VENMOOR FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN TO REAR, GILBROOK
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104190
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Venmoor Farmhouse and Attached Barn to Rear
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER VENMOOR FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN TO REAR, GILBROOK
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 VENMOOR FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN TO REAR, GILBROOK
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 00694 86673
Details
SX 98 NE WOODBURY GILBROOK (west side) Woodbury
2/111 Higher Venmoor Farmhouse and - attached barn to rear
- II
Former farmhouse with barn attached to rear wing. Early C17 with later alterations. Roughcast cob on stone footings; gabled-end corrugated iron roof. Formerly a 3-room, through-passage plan house, the service end to the left of the passage. Internal end stacks; rear stack to hall, internal end emerging through slope of roof; all with brick shafts. 2 storeys. Front: 4 window range; 3-windows to ground floor; all with 12-pane hornless sashes. Door, panelled, with rectangular fanlight; scratch moulded doorway surround; simple canopy on console brackets. Rear service end wing with three 2-light C19 casement windows to roadside. The beam extends to the rear of this, the roof ridge at a lower level than the wing, and is entered from the road through an early-C17 doorway with cranked chamfered lintel, mitred and pegged into chamfered jambs, the latter with step stops. Interior: the barn with 3 base jointed crucks, morticed and pegged at apex, threaded purlins; much repaired, the collars replaced. Lath and plaster partition between barn and rear wing. Interior of house not inspected internally but the inner room ceiling beam visible, with ovolo-moulding and 2 fillets.
Listing NGR: SY0069486673
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 88622
- 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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