West Chilla Farmhouse
WEST CHILLA FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105123
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1989
- List Entry Name:
- West Chilla Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WEST CHILLA FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105123
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1989
- List Entry Name:
- West Chilla Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST CHILLA 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:
- WEST CHILLA FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Black Torrington
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 44177 02217
Details
BLACK TORRINGTON WEST CHILLA SS 40 NW
9/19 West Chilla Farmhouse -
GV II
Farmhouse. Early C17 possibly with earlier origins, altered and added to in C19. Plastered cob and rubble walls. Gable-ended corrugated asbestos roof. Brick stack at each gable-end and axial stone stack of small blocks with dripmoulds and dripcourse. Plan: 3-room-and-through-passage basic plan except that the higher end consists of a small heated parlour with dairy or service room behind it. The hall stack backs onto the passage and at the rear is a newel stair in projection. Adjoining this at the higher end a dairy lean-to was added in the C18. The lower room fireplace was inserted in the C19, it may originally have performed a non-domestic function. The plan appears not to have been altered since the C19. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front the right-hand half of which was a slightly lower roof-line. C19 small-paned 2 and 3-light casements apart from a circa early C19 24-pane horizontal sliding sash to left on ground floor. C20 part- glazed door to right of centre. C19 low pighouse projects as wing from right-hand end and there is a C19 lean-to against the left-hand end. At rear is rectangular stair projection to right of centre with lean-to to its right and pump-house built in front of it. Interior: hall has large open fireplace with chamfered wooden lintel which was diagonal cut stops and a chamfered granite jamb to the left. Inner room has smaller fireplace with chamfered unstopped wooden lintel. The small room behind has a C17 chamfered wooden doorframe of which the right-hand half has been removed. C18 or C19 roof trusses with straight principals and lapped pegged collars. This is an unspoilt example of a traditional Devon farmhouse little altered since tne C19.
Listing NGR: SS4417702217
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91573
- 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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