Lewer Farmhouse

LEWER FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1105275
Date first listed:
29-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:
Lewer Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
LEWER FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1105275
Date first listed:
29-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:
Lewer Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
LEWER FARMHOUSE

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
LEWER FARMHOUSE

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

County:
Devon
District:
West Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Hatherleigh
National Grid Reference:
SS 52847 05578

Details

HATHERLEIGH SS 50 NW Lewer Farmhouse 3/17 - - II Farmhouse. C17, possibly with earlier origins, with C18 or C19 additions. Rendered cob and rubble walls. Gabled mainly thatched roof, corrugated iron roof to attached cottage at right. Brick stack at left and right gable ends. Plan: originally probably 2-room-and-through-passage plan, hall to right with projecting window bay at front and rear lateral stack. Staircase inserted into passage in early C20. At right-hand end of hall a 2-room plan cottage was added in the C18 or early C19 which is now unoccupied. C19 outbuilding at left-hand end of house which may have been a stable. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4 window front to main house of which the right- hand end is a projecting gabled bay. C20 2-light casements. C20 4-panel door to right of centre. Cottage at right-hand end is recessed and has a 3-window front of similar casements with a central gabled late C19 or C20 porch with 4 panel door behind. Outbuilding at left-hand end of house projects and has a door towards its left-hand end and 4 windows. Interior: no early features visible on ground floor but may merely be concealed . 1st floor and roof-space inaccessible at time of survey but early roof timbers may survive.

Listing NGR: SS5284705578

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
93123
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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