HOUSE ABOUT 50 METRES WEST OF BLAGATON FARMHOUSE

Overview

Heritage Category: Listed Building

Grade: II

List Entry Number: 1104654

Date first listed: 21-Jan-1986

Statutory Address: HOUSE ABOUT 50 METRES WEST OF BLAGATON FARMHOUSE

Location

Statutory Address: HOUSE ABOUT 50 METRES WEST OF BLAGATON FARMHOUSE

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

National Grid Reference: SX 41283 97901

Summary

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Reasons for Designation

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History

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Details

ASHWATER SX 49 NW 4/7 House about 50m west of Blagaton - Farmhouse II House, in use as store. C17 with some minor circa mid C19 alterations when the house was divided into 2 cottages. Rendered cob on stone rubble footings, corrugated iron roofs gabled at ends formerly thatched. Massive stone stack on ridge heating hall, right gable end stack heating lower end no longer exists. 3 rooms and through or cross passage plan, the hall heated by a stack backing on to the passage, the inner room very narrow and unheated and the lower end heated at the right gable end. When the house was divided the entrance was altered to a baffle entry with the passage forming a narrow room at the lower end. The roof trusses were replaced circa late C19/early C20. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front, front door leading into a lobby in front of the stack has a sloping slate roof. Separate entrance into lower end to the right probably constructed when the house was divided. C19 fenestration to the front elevation with 2- and 3-light casements with glazing bars. 2 timber C17 mullioned windows to the rear, 1 lighting the inner room has a king mullion and 1 diamond section mullion surviving. A 2-light timber mullioned window lights the rear wall of the passage. Interior The hall fireplace has squared stone rubble jambs and a chamfered lintel with straight cut stops, 1 chamfered axial beam to hall. A plastered partition wall between the hall and inner room is probably post C17. The lower end fireplace has a chamfered timber lintel. The stubs of the truncated C17 principal rafters exist below the circa late C19/early C20 trusses.

Listing NGR: SX4128397901

Legacy

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Legacy System number: 90709

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.