YEO OLD FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1105410
Date first listed:: 28-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: YEO OLD FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: YEO OLD FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1105410
Date first listed:: 28-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: YEO OLD FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: YEO OLD FARMHOUSE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: YEO OLD FARMHOUSE

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

County:: Devon
District:: West Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Sheepstor
National Park:: DARTMOOR
National Grid Reference:: SX 55110 66951

Details

SHEEPSTOR SX 56 NE 18/106 Yeo Old Farmhouse - - II*

Unoccupied farmhouse now in use as shippon. Dated 1610. Part rendered stone rubble walls. Gable ended slate roof. One rubble stack at left gable end. Plan: L-shaped plan originally with 2 equal-size rooms to front range probably with central passage which led to a stair turret at the rear. To the right of the stair projection is 1-room plan wing, unheated on ground floor, probably service room. The 2 principal front rooms were both heated by gable end fireplaces and the 3 1st floor rooms were also all heated. The house is likely to have been abandoned in the later C19 or early C20 and the rooms of the front range were knocked into one room for use as a shippon with store above. Exteior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-window front with central gabled 2 storey porch and small gables over 1st floor windows. Windows all original chamfered granite mullion windows, 3-light to the 1st floor, 4-light to the ground floor. The porch has a 4-centred granite arched doorway with broad chamfer and square hoodmould, carved in its spandrels is the date 1610 and the initials I.W.T. 4-centred arched granite inn er doorway to porch. Above the outer doorway is a small granite framed recess, now empty, the purpose of which is unclear. Wing at rear of right-hand side is partially reduced in height and also retains its granite mullion windows. In the angle of its inner face is the stair turret which has a parallel roofline to the front range and a 2-light granite mullion window. Interior: Although the internal partitions have been removed from the front range and the ceiling has been renewed the original fireplaces survive on each floor with chamfered granite jambs and lintel, one of the 1st floor fireplaces has a wooden lintel. The original staircase has been removed. One original roof truss survives with curved feet , morticed cranked collar and threaded purlins. This building is important for two reasons; small early C17 gentry houses such as this of one build are unusual in Devon and this is a particularly early example of a completely symmetrical facade. Furthermore this facade is perfectly preserved and the main fabric of the house, despite the removal of some internal features, is intact and has no significant additions.

Listing NGR: SX5511066951

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Legacy System number:: 92838
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.