LEWDON FARMHOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1105997
Date first listed:: 20-May-1985
List Entry Name:: LEWDON FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: LEWDON FARMHOUSE

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Date:: 2006-11-25
Reference:: IOE01/16215/15
Rights:: © Mr Hedley R. Hooper. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1105997
Date first listed:: 20-May-1985
List Entry Name:: LEWDON FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: LEWDON 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: LEWDON 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:: SX 77088 94916

Details

SX 79 SE CHERITON BISHOP

10/9 Lewdon Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse, now house. Early C16 origins, improved and extended in C16 and C17. Plastered cob on rubble footings; stone and brick stacks; asbestos tile roof over thatch. Much altered 3-room-and-through-passage with inner room to north west and late C16-early C17 block behind hall. 2-storeys facing north east. Irregular 4- window front comprising C20 wooden casements of various sizes with late C18 6-panel door at left end to passage. Hall section breaks forward slightly from main block. Very small service end result of truncation of this end. Roof is largely inaccessible but smoke-blackening over passage and service end suggests an early C16 low partition house with an open hearth fire. Granite hall fireplace with chamfered oak lintel with pyramid stops and remains of oak plank-and-muntin screen including a flat-arched door alongside to passage. Passage-service end chamber jettied into hall with first floor low plank-and-muntin screen below plastered framing. At upper end of hall unusual mid C17 oak plank-and-muntin screen with moulding along head and chamfered posts with bar-runout stops. Framing above and closed tie-beam truss. Inner room with chamfered beam with runout stops. Hall wing with late C16/early C17 stopped beams but gable fireplace built of brick and rubble in C19. Inner room extended and much altered in C19. Granite mounting block set against C19 extension to hall wing (south west end).

Listing NGR: SX7708894916

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

Legacy System number:: 95112
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.