Higher Parford Farmhouse
HIGHER PARFORD FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106046
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Parford Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER PARFORD FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106046
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Parford Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER PARFORD 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:
- HIGHER PARFORD FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Drewsteignton
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX7140989971
Details
SX 78 NW
7/131
DREWSTEIGNTON
SANDYPARK
Higher Parford Farmhouse
GV
II
Farmhouse. Probably C16 and C17. Plastered stone rubble, maybe with cob; stone
rubble stacks topped with C19 brick (in fact the hall chimney shaft is granite
ashlar at the base and brick above but its original granite coping with crenellated
top has been reset on top of the brick); thatch roof.
Plan and development: 3-room-and-through-passage plan house facing east-south-east,
say east, and built down the hill slope. Inner room with projecting gable-end stack
and is terraced into the uphill right (north) end. It is set back slightly from the
main front giving the hall windows the impression of a bay. The hall has an axial
stack backing onto the passage. Long unheated service end room at the downhill left
end. Secondary service outshot projecting at right angles to rear of inner room is
now used as a kitchen. Since no internal inspection was available at the time of
this survey it is not possible to outline the historic development of the farmhouse
here. Nevertheless it seems likely that it was an open hall house originally, maybe
heated by an open hearth fire. The long downhill service end room might even
suggest that it was formerly a Dartmoor longhouse with a shippon there. It is now 2
storeys throughout.
Exterior: irregular 5-window front of various C19 and C20 casements. The oldest
contain rectangular panes of leaded glass, others have glazing bars and some of the
latest also have rectangular panes of leaded glass. The front passage doorway is
set left of centre and now contains an early C20 plank door behind a contemporary
trellis porch. Roof is gable-ended to right and hipped to left.
Interior: was not available for inspection at the time of this survey although it
appears to have had only superficial C19 and C20 modernisations. Also it is said to
include an oak plank-and-muntin screen. Other C16 and C17 features are suspected
throughout the house and the roof might be late medieval.
Higher Parford appears to be a well-preserved Devon farmhouse, probably C16 with C17
improvements. A proper internal survey should be undertaken before any building
work here lest C16 or C17 features be affected.
The owner reports the discovery of an oak window with cusped lights, presumably
early C16 in date.
Listing NGR: SX7140989971
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 94925
- 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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