Cowhouse Approximately 3 Metres East of Gooseford Farmhouse
COWHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 3 METRES EAST OF GOOSEFORD FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106053
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Cowhouse Approximately 3 Metres East of Gooseford Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- COWHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 3 METRES EAST OF GOOSEFORD FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106053
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Cowhouse Approximately 3 Metres East of Gooseford Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- COWHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 3 METRES EAST OF GOOSEFORD FARMHOUSE
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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:
- COWHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 3 METRES EAST OF GOOSEFORD FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- South Tawton
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 67568 91722
Details
SX 69 SE SOUTH TAWTON
4/147 Cowhouse approximately 3 metres east of Goose ford Farmhouse
GV II
Cowhouse, former farmhouse. Dated 1641 and all features are consistent with this date, partly rebuilt when converted from a farmhouse to a cowhouse circa 1900. Granite stone rubble with large roughly-dressed quoins and sections of large coursed blocks of granite ashlar. Disused granite stack; corrugated iron roof, formerly thatch. Plan: 3-room plan house built across the hillslope facing south. The internal arrangement has been much-altered and a much longer study of the fabric than was possibe for this survey is needed to discover the layout in detail. The right end room has an end stack. It is thought that an axial stack served the other rooms but no evidence of it remains. 2 storeys. Exterior: irregular 3-window front, the windows are blocked. Ground floor right window has been enlarged to a doorway. A plaque inscribed Anno Do 1641 flanked by labels inscribed OL has been reset high in the wall right of centre. Roof is hipped both ends. The rear elevation has been similarly rearranged. Central doorway here has been rebuilt. Above it is the only original window left, an oak 3-light window with ovolo-moulded mullions. A second door to right contains an oak C17 doorframe with ovolo-moulded surround has been reset facing inwards. Interior: has plain chamfered crossbeams. The fireplace has a similarly-finished oak lintel. 7-bay roof of A-frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed collars. Lega-Weekes who saw the house in 1896 before its conversion describes "a gabled porch with a pointed entrance-arch of moulded granite, retaining a very heavy oak door, studded with monster nails, above which was a table dated 1641 and a mullioned window, on whose dripstone-corbels appeared the letters CL". Source: E Lega-Weekes, Neighbours of North Wyke, Park I Trans. Devon. Assoc. 33 (1901), pp 447 - 448.
Listing NGR: SX6756891722
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 94941
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions of the Devonshire Association in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, Vol. 33, (1901), 447-448
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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