LOWER COOMBE FARMHOUSE
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1105893
Date first listed: 11-Jun-1986
Statutory Address: LOWER COOMBE FARMHOUSE
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Location
Statutory Address: LOWER COOMBE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Devon
District: Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish: Halberton
National Grid Reference: ST 01074 10399
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History
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Details
HALBERTON BRITHEM BOTTOM
ST 01 SW
2/184 Lower Coombe Farmhouse
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- II
Farmhouse. C16, with C17 and later alterations. Cob and stone rubble, plastered,
under gabled end slate roofs. Formerly a 3-room, through-passage plan, with 2 rear
wings, 1 to the service end, the other to the hall. Higher end to the left of
passage; end stacks, that to the right originally external and partially dismantled;
external rear lateral stack heats hall; all with brick shafts. 2-storeys, with
newel staircase at service end to rear of stack; and evidence of another now gone,
at corresponding corner of inner room; present main stairs occupy former passage.
Front: 3-window range; all C19 three-light casement windows; timber, open porch with
slate roof to passage; the right wing projection (under catslide roof) marks former
smoking chamber, subsequently converted into small chamber with a (now blocked)
window, visible internally.
Rear: service end wing with 2 and 4-light C19 casement windows to end, probably
inserted into C17 embrasures; an earlier 4-light casement with chamfered mullions
and jambs; 8 or 10-panes per light, and with a sliding butterfly catch and
stanchions, survive to the ground floor outer side elevation of this wing; wing to
rear of hall with end stack, partially rebuilt; the first floor 2-light window to
the left of this with ovolo moulded mullion and jambs, 10 leaded panes per light,
C19 two-light window to right of stack; C19 two and 3-light casements in early
embrasures to outer face of this wing. Inner room chamber with 3-light casement
window with chamfered mullions and jamb.
Interior: inner room fireplace lintel, wooden, with unusual barley-sugar moulding to
concave moulding; rough cross beam with mortices marks position of former screen
between this room and hall; service end fireplace lintel with hollow step stops; 1
deeply chamfered cross beam.
Roof: 2 periods: 1, possibly C16, with 2 jointed crucks; the other, later with
trusses crossed and pegged at apex.
Listing NGR: ST0107410399
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 95371
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.
End of official listing