EASTACOMBE FARMHOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1104676
Date first listed:: 09-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: EASTACOMBE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: EASTACOMBE FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1104676
Date first listed:: 09-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: EASTACOMBE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: EASTACOMBE FARMHOUSE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: EASTACOMBE FARMHOUSE

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

County:: Devon
District:: Torridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Clawton
National Grid Reference:: SX 35435 99648

Details

SX 39 NE CLAWTON

3/4 Eastacombe Farmhouse - II Farmhouse circa late C17 core, circa mid C19 addition. Stone rubble probably with some cob under the eaves, slate roofs, the C19 wing hipped at ends, the main range gabled at the left end, the left end slates replaced with corrugated iron. Axial brick chimney shaft to main range, rendered stack at front end of C19 crosswing, projecting stone stack with set-offs at rear end of C19 crosswing. The main range was originally a late C17 2 or 3 room and through passage plan, the lower end under a corrugated iron roof is now in use as an outbuilding and does not appear ever to have been heated. The hall stack is at the inner end of the hall. There may have been an inner room to the C17 range but this is not certain as the C19 crosswing to the right abuts the inner end of the hall at right angles forming a T- plan. Rear service rooms including a former dairy were added to the rear of the main range, probably in the C18, under lean-to roofs. A stair was inserted in the through passage in the early C20. 2 storeys. The main range is approximately symmetrical with a central gabled open- fronted stone porch and a C20 front door. A barn door to the left leads into the lower end. First floor window left above the barn doors is a 3-light casement under a timber lintel. First floor window above the porch is a 2-light casement, 6 panes per light, ground floor window right is similar. The left return of the crosswing to the right has C19 casements, 4 panes per light and a C20 glazed lean-to in the angle with the main range. Some of the windows in the right return of the crosswing are late C20 replacements. Interior The roof trusses are circa early C20 replacements but 1 circa late C17 collar rafter pegged truss with a broken principal rafter exists below the new roof over the hall and a second similar truss has been truncated above collar level. The hall fireplace has been partly blocked but the original jambs and lintel are said to exist behind the present arrangement. 1 early C18 2-panel door to the first floor. A remarkable slate sundial is fixed to the front of the house and dated 1737, "the time is shown at all hours of the day at Jerusalem and Barbadoes, while noon tide only is shown at Goa, Ispahan, Constantinople, Candia, Vienna..." (Crowley) and 7 other cities. "Sundials in North Devon", Jeanie Crowley, T.D.A., 1957, vol. 89, pp 175-191.

Listing NGR: SX3543599648

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Legacy System number:: 90659
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Transactions of the Devonshire Association' in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, , Vol. 89, (1957), 175-191

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.