LOWER COOMBE FARMHOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1105893
Date first listed:: 11-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:: LOWER COOMBE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: LOWER COOMBE FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1105893
Date first listed:: 11-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:: LOWER COOMBE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: LOWER COOMBE 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:: 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

Details

HALBERTON BRITHEM BOTTOM ST 01 SW 2/184 Lower Coombe Farmhouse - - 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

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

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.