HIGHER EGGBEAR FARMHOUSE
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1105996
Date first listed: 20-May-1985
Statutory Address: HIGHER EGGBEAR FARMHOUSE
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Location
Statutory Address: HIGHER EGGBEAR 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 Park: DARTMOOR
National Grid Reference: SX 76794 92595
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History
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Details
SX 79 SE CHERITON BISHOP
10/7 Higher Eggbear Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse. C16 with C17 improvements and extensions and C20 modernisations.
Plastered cob on rubble footings; stone stacks with exposed granite ashlar or
brick chimney shafts; thatched roof. Original 3-room-and-through-passage plan
with inner room to east. Now 2 storeys throughout facing south. Axial hall stack
backing onto passage and end stacks. C17 2-storey front porch incorporated into
C20 conservatory, small C17 2-storey, gable-ended block projecting to rear of hall
is probably former stair turret, and C17 outshots to rear. 5 window south front.
Passage door to projecting C20 glass-fronted conservatory with roof carried down
over and C17 first floor window oak, 3 lights, chamfered mullions with C19 leaded
square panes projecting through thatch as wide segmental-headed dormer. Other
windows C20 casements with glazing bars, all 2 lights except 3 lights to hall.
Eyebrows over 3 windows right of conservatory C20 doors to service and inner rooms.
Good interior. Smoke-blackened roof timbers and thatch over hall and service room
including side-pegged jointed cruck truss with cambered collar over hall suggests
early C16 house with open hearth and low partitions. Contemporary round-headed oak
doorframe to rear of passage. Later in C16 and early C17 inner room floored and
chamber jettied into hall, full height cob partition erected on lower side of
passage and service end floored, hall fireplace inserted (granite with moulded oak
lintel) with oak plank and muntin screen, rear extension built connected to hall
by oak flat-arched door. In mid C17 inner room extended to 3 bays with new roof
and granite fireplace with oak lintel chamfered with bar-roll stop in end wall and
winder stair to right. Cob outshots with C17 square-headed door from passage
extension to outshot behind service room.
Listing NGR: SX7679492595
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 95110
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