Ramscliffe Farmhouse
RAMSCLIFFE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105067
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Ramscliffe Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- RAMSCLIFFE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105067
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Ramscliffe Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAMSCLIFFE 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:
- RAMSCLIFFE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Beaford
- National Grid Reference:
- SS5472116376
Details
BEAFORD
SS 51 NW
7/19 Ramscliffe Farmhouse
1.3.80
GV II
Farmhouse. Probably late C15 or early C16, altered and enlarged probably in the
early C17. Rendered cob with half-hipped wheatstraw thatched roof. Rendered lateral
stack with later brick top and brick end and axial stacks.
Plan and development: Three-room and cross-/through-passage plan, facing south
(ground falls to right). Probably formerly with an open hall, possibly open to the
roof from end to end. Circa 1500 house consisting of hall with passage and service
room to right and probaby with inner room to the left. Early C17 alterations
including insertion of first floor in hall (or if house completed infloored in other
rooms too), insertion of external lateral stack to front of hall including the full-
height square-bay to its left (bay possibly lit former open hall), insertion of
external end stack to former service room and probable enlargement of former inner
room with end stack. Its possible that the Medieval house had no inner room and
that this is an addition of the early C17. Probably mid - C17 one-roomed addition at
left-hand end (see lower roof-line) with integral end stack (now truncated). The
left-hand one-roomed addition was probably a separate small cottage (see separate
entrance and staircase and lack of internal connection with rest of house) and is now
used as an outhouse. Two storeys.
Exterior: Asymmetrical-fenestrated front with 5 windows to first floor and 3 to
ground floor, mostly late C19 and C20 two-light wooden casements. Small unglazed
first floor wooden window to left (possibly late C17 or C18). Passage entrance to
right of stack with C20 lean-to porch. C19 boarded wooden door to left-hand
addition. Small stair window at rear.
Interior: Access to most of interior denied. Right-hand ground floor room (present
kitchen) has chamfered cross beam with ogee stops. Left-hand ground-floor room (mid
C17 addition) has chamfered spine beam, open fireplace with wooden lintel and old
staircase in corner.
The house forms part of a small farmstead group, including barn (q.v.) and requires a
detailed inspection.
Listing NGR: SS5472116376
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91637
- 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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