Lowertown Farmhouse
LOWERTOWN FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105530
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Lowertown Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWERTOWN FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105530
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Lowertown Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWERTOWN 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:
- LOWERTOWN FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stowford
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 41122 85360
Details
SX 48 NW STOWFORD SPRYTOWN
3/284 Lowertown Farmhouse -
GV II
Farmhouse. C16 origins, C19 and C20 alterations. Colourwashed and rendered with 2-span slate roof with hipped ends. 1 massive projecting stone stack with set-offs at left end, 1 lateral stone projecting stack with set-offs on front at right. The original plan was probably 3-room and through passage with heated lower end and the hall heated by the lateral stack. Disturbance to the right-hand end wall suggests that the inner room has been demolished. In the C19 the house was extended to the rear forming a double depth plan, and a stair was inserted in the passage. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front with the former hall stack on the front at the right and the front door in a long lean-to porch on the front. Ground floor window left is a 20-pane sash. Ground floor window in right-hand end of lean-to is a 2-light casements. Interior Modernized but may conceal earlier features. Ground floor room left has 2 boxed-in cross beams.
Listing NGR: SX4112285360
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 92525
- 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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