Elmsleigh Farmhouse
ELMSLEIGH FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104665
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Elmsleigh Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ELMSLEIGH FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104665
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Elmsleigh Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ELMSLEIGH 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:
- ELMSLEIGH FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Broadwoodwidger
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 40208 88354
Details
BROADWOODWIDGER SX 48 NW 8/29 Elmsleigh Farmhouse - II Farmhouse. Circa late C17 origins, remodelled in the C18. Colourwashed rendered cob on stone rubble footings, asbestos slate roof gabled at left end, half-hipped at right end, 2 rendered axial stacks. The original plan was probably a 3 room and passage house with the hall stack backing on to the passage and an unheated lower end. A remodelling of the C18 probably removed the lower end wall of the passage and provided a new entrance directly into the hall creating a symmetrical elevation between the stacks. An addition at the left end may originally have been used as a woodstore with an apple loft over. 2 storeys. 5-window front with regular fenestration and a symmetrical elevation between the stacks, the range slightly set back to the left of the left-hand stack. Central gabled porch with a round-headed outer doorway, a second entrance to the right under a slate canopy on timber brackets may represent the original passage doorway, the left-hand addition has a separate entrance on the front. Sash windows throughout, 20-pane sashes between the stacks with a 12-pane sash above the porch, first floor window left and ground floor window right 16-pane sashes, first floor window right paired 12-pane sashes. Interior Early features may be concealed behind the plaster. Roofspace not inspected.
Listing NGR: SX4020888354
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 90731
- 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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