HIGHER EGGBEAR FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1105996
Date first listed:: 20-May-1985
List Entry Name:: HIGHER EGGBEAR FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: HIGHER EGGBEAR FARMHOUSE

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Date:: 2005-04-21
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1105996
Date first listed:: 20-May-1985
List Entry Name:: HIGHER EGGBEAR FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: HIGHER EGGBEAR 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:: 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

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

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Legacy System number:: 95110
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.