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NORTH DOWN FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1104681
Date first listed:: 09-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: NORTH DOWN FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: NORTH DOWN FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1104681
Date first listed:: 09-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: NORTH DOWN FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: NORTH DOWN 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:: NORTH DOWN 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:: SS 34604 00209

Details

SS 30 SW CLAWTON

1/9 North Down Farmhouse -

GV II

Farmhouse. Late medieval core remodelled in the circa late C17, C18 alterations. Whitewashed rendered cob on stone rubble footings, corrugated iron roof over thatch hipped at the left end, gabled at the right end over an adjoining barn and gabled at the end of the rear wing, axial stone stack. A late medieval open hall house with a 2-bay hall and probably a 2-storey inner room was remodelled in the C17 when the hall was ceiled over and a hall stack inserted backing on to the through passage. The passage is now at the left-hand end of the main range, the C17 lower end no longer exists and may have been dismantled in the C18 when an unheated rear left service wing was added forming an L-plan. The inner room, heated from an axial stack is now part of the barn adjoining at the right and the stack has been partly dismantled. A third stack, cob and truncated exists on the right gable end wall of the barn and may indicate a third heated room added at the inner end of the main range, or may represent the remains of a probably C18 single- cell cottage adjoining the main range. A stack was inserted in the rear wing, probably in the late C19/early C20 when it was converted to a kitchen. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2-window front with regular fenestration and a wide 6-panel front door to the passage on the front at the left. To the right of the door a circa late C19 3-light hall window, 6 panes per light, C20 window ground floor right. 2 first floor late C19/early C20 2-light casements with glazing bars. The barn adjoining at the right end has been partly rebuilt in concrete block. Interior 1 smoke-blackened collar rafter roof truss over the hall with a slightly cambered collar halved and pegged into the principal rafters which are mortised at the apex with a diagonally-set ridge. The battens and ridge are smoke-blackened but the medieval thatch has been replaced. A similar closed truss between the hall and inner room is not sooted on the inner side. The roofspace over the rear wing is not fully accessible but the trusses appear to be C18. Open fireplace with stone rubble jambs and a timber lintel to the hall which has a roughly chamfered cross beam and a cream oven. A newel stair rises in the rear right angle of the hall with a keeping place on the wall. The first floor room left has a late C17 fireplace with stone rubble jambs and a chamfered lintel with bar scroll stops. The rear of the cross passage has been converted to a bedroom. The interior of the house is very unspoiled with old wall plaster. The surviving medieval roof timbers are rare in this part of West Devon.

Listing NGR: SS3460400209

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

Legacy System number:: 90664
Legacy System:: LBS

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