Yeat Farmhouse

YEAT FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1105592
Date first listed:
07-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:
Yeat Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
YEAT FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1105592
Date first listed:
07-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:
Yeat Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
YEAT 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:
YEAT FARMHOUSE

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

County:
Devon
District:
West Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Lifton
National Grid Reference:
SX 37999 85903

Details

SX 38 NE LIFTON

2/131 Yeat Farmhouse - II

Farmhouse. C17 with later alterations. Rendered stone and cob. Asbestos slate roofs gabled at right end, hipped at left end, formerly thatched. 3 stacks on ridge with brick shafts: stone stack at left gable end, rendered stack at left end of higher end, stone stack at centre of higher end. 2 builds, cob at the lower end, stone at the higher end. Probably originally 3 room and through or cross passage plan with circa C19 rear addition. Internal alterations have obscured the original plan, gabled front wing to higher end. The lower end has a lower roofline. 2 storeys. 1 + 3 window front. Present entrance into lean-to adjoining front at right. 2 entrances into lower end, 1 on front at left, a second on front at right possibly the passage doorway. Ground floor window in front projection is a pair of 6-pane sashes. Ground floor window right is a 3-light granite C17 mullioned window with casements with glazing bars. First floor window in lower end is a C19 16-pane sash. 2 8-pane C19 or C20 sashes and 1 C20 casement to first floor of higher end. Interior Fireplaces partly blocked and ceiling of middle room boarded over, possibly concealing earlier features. Roofspace not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX3799985903

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
92376
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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