Higher Willsworthy Farmhouse
HIGHER WILLSWORTHY FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105397
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Willsworthy Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER WILLSWORTHY FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105397
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Willsworthy Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER WILLSWORTHY 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 WILLSWORTHY FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Peter Tavy
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX5358381697
Details
PETER TAVY
SX 58 SW
5/74 Higher Willsworthy Farmhouse
14.6.52
GV II
Farmhouse. Circa late C16 with C17 additions. Plastered granite rubble walls.
Asbestos slate roof gabled to left and rear wing, hipped to right end. Axial rubble
stack to front range, wing has rubble stack at gable end and rubble projecting
lateral stack on outer face.
Originally longhouse plan but with complex later developments. The original
building had a shippon to the left with a passage to the right beyond which was
only a hall with its stack backing onto the passage and newel stairs to the rear.
Probably in the early C17 a 2 storey hall bay was added at the front of its higher
end. In the second half of the C17 the house was considerably remodelled with a
service room taken from the passage and a part of the shippon and a large wing built
to the rear of the hall comprising a larger hall heated by a lateral fireplace with
a parlour beyond it heated by a gable end stack. The large 2 storey porch at the
front of the former passage is probably contemporary. The original hall was
probably relegated to kitchen at this stage and the old stair utilised by the new
wing with a new doorway cut through. This is a somewhat unconventional extension of
the house as it would be more usual to have built at the higher end of the hall
assuming that it was then a level site.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2 window front of C20 2-light casements with the
windows in the large gabled 2 storey porch at the centre and the projecting hall bay
at the right end. Porch has C20 plank door and a lean-to built on to the front of
the house at either side. Long wing projects to rear from right-hand end.
Interior inaccessible at time of survey believed to contain stone newel stairs and
chamfered cross beams.
Source: Devon Farmhouses III - S. R. Jones: Trans: Devonshire Association 103, 1971
Listing NGR: SX5358381697
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 92806
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions of the Devonshire Association in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, (1971)
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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