West Ford Farmhouse
WEST FORD FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105959
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- West Ford Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WEST FORD FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105959
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- West Ford Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST FORD 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:
- WEST FORD FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cheriton Bishop
- National Grid Reference:
- SX7321793783
Details
SX 79 SW
9/20
CHERITON BISHOP
West Ford Farmhouse
GV
II
Farmhouse, now house. C16 core, C17 improvements and extensions, partly rebuilt
and further extended in late C18- early C19, modernised 1984. Plastered cob on
rubble footings; granite, cob and brick stacks topped with C19 brick; wheat reed
thatched roof. 2-storeys facing south. 4-room plan to main block with stables and
hayloft attached to left (west) end. Lobby entrance house with one heated room to
left of front door and 2 to right. Projecting service wing with gable-end stack.
Kitchen-bakehouse in right end room with massive gable-end stack is isolated from
main house by blind cob crosswall. Roof half-hipped to left. Irregular front.
Large door and unglazed window to stables on left. Main house to left of service
wing has symmetrical 2-window arrangement of C19 3-light casements and central
door, and to right doors to kitchen and service block are sheltered behind outshot
with corrugated iron roof. It seems likely that early core of the building lies
between cob crosswalls and towards eastern end upper part of a smoke-blackened
truss remains (presumably C16). Roof otherwise late C18-early C19 in date, and
most of layout and features below are contemporary. Kitchen-bakehouse and service
wing escaped modernisation; former still cobbled with massive granite fireplace,
its oak lintel covered by mantelshelf on shaped brackets, latter with granite
fireplace with oak lintel chamfered with scroll stops, spice-cupboard to left with
carved oak surround, and small oak 2-light window with chamfered mullions in west
wall. Both date from second half of C17. Late C17 ceilings in east end of main
room features simple oval panel defined by moulded rib. The late C18-early C19
scheme was apparently never finished as room left of front door was never plastered
and its fireplace never used.
Listing NGR: SX7321793783
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95120
- 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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