Higher Corscombe Farmhouse
HIGHER CORSCOMBE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105317
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Corscombe Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER CORSCOMBE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105317
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Corscombe Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER CORSCOMBE 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:
- HIGHER CORSCOMBE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sampford Courtenay
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 62052 96306
Details
SAMPFORD COURTENAY SK 69 NW 8/141 Higher Corscombe Farmhouse GV II Farmhouse. Circa mid to late C17 with C20 addition and alterations. Plastered cob walls apart from stone rubble left-hand end wall (wnich re-uses some pieces of dressed granite). Thatch roof gabled to right end tripped to left. Plan: the original room arrangement is not entirely clear but consists at present of 2 rooms heated by gable end fireplaces with a possibly integral barn at the left end. A C20 addition has been built at the rear. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2-window front of circa early C20 2 and 3-light casements with a central C20 gabled porch which has glazed doors. Barn at left-hand end has central doorway with a slit opening to its left, window to its right and loading hatch above. C19 outbuilding attached at right-hand end. Interior: the right-hand room has a fireplace with high chamfered wooden lintel and granite jamb to the left, oven in right-hand side built in under tile lintel. The other fireplace probably has a replacement lintel. Lack of visible roof timbers on first floor suggest that they are C18 or later.
Listing NGR: SX6205296306
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 93024
- 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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