Woolridge Farmhouse

WOOLRIDGE FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1104628
Date first listed:
10-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
Woolridge Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
WOOLRIDGE FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1104628
Date first listed:
10-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
Woolridge Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
WOOLRIDGE 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WOOLRIDGE FARMHOUSE

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

County:
Devon
District:
Torridge (District Authority)
Parish:
Dolton
National Grid Reference:
SS 55868 11911

Details

DOLTON SS 51 SE 5/60 Woolridge Farmhouse II Former farmhouse. Early C17 possibly with earlier origins. Plastered cob walls. Gable-ended thatch roof. Rendered rubble axial stack. Plan: 3-room with baffle entry in front of axial stack between left-hand and central room which is probably hall. Unheated service room to its right. Beyond that is a long barn which is probably an C18 addition. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front of C19 and early C20 small-paned 2-light casements. Slight projection to left of centre in front of baffle entry with small single C20 light on 1st floor. C20 gabled porch in front of this projection with plank door. Straight joint between house and long barn at right- hand end which has corrugated iron roof. It has a single light C20 window to the left and a 3-light C20 casement at the centre in the blocked cart entrance between 2 rubble buttresses. Doorway to its right. Interior: hall and left-hand room have substantial cross beams - those to the hall are chamfered and stepped open fireplace to hall with chamfered wooden lintel. Roof timbers may also be of interest.

Listing NGR: SS5586811911

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
90853
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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