Allison Farmhouse
ALLISON FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106049
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Allison Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ALLISON FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106049
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Allison Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALLISON 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:
- ALLISON FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Spreyton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 67973 96657
Details
SX 69 NE SOUTH TAWTON
1/136 Allison Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse including former barn. Mid or late C17, refurbished in the mid C19. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble stacks topped with C19 and C20 brick; thatch roof. Plan and development: long block built across a gentle hillslope facing east-north- east, say east. The house is at the left (south) end. It has a 2-room plan with central entrance lobby and stair. The left room is the kitchen with a projecting gable-end stack and the parlour to right has an axial stack backing onto the stair. The right end section includes workshop and storerooms with bed chambers. Originally there was a 1-room plan cottage at the left end with a threshing barn alongside with full height opposing central doorways onto the threshing floor. The house was refurbished in the mid C19 and enlarged by encroaching into the barn to provide the parlour. Afterwards the rest of the barn was used as a ciderhouse. In the C20 the house was enlarged by taking over the former hayloft for bed chambers and thereafter the remaining ground floor space was used as workshop and stores. 2 storeys with outshot to rear of former kitchen. Exterior: irregular 3:1:2-window front of C20 casements with glazing bars. The projecting bay is the filling of the barn door in front of the projecting midstrey walls. To left it is an almost symmetrical arrangement around the main front doorway; now containing a part-glazed panelled door behind a C20 path with monopitch roof. Roof is gable-ended. The outshot to rear was originally open- fronted. Interior has plain carpentry detail. Roof was not inspected although the bases of straight principals showed. Allison is a historic settlement and yet it seems likely that the old farmhouse was on a different site. Source: Devon SMR.
Listing NGR: SX6797396657
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 94930
- 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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