Middle Gooseford Farmhouse
MIDDLE GOOSEFORD FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106055
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Middle Gooseford Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MIDDLE GOOSEFORD FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106055
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Middle Gooseford Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MIDDLE GOOSEFORD 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:
- MIDDLE 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 67688 91863
Details
SX 69 SE SOUTH TAWTON
4/154 Middle Gooseford Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse. Probably C17, maybe earlier, thoroughly renovated circa 1920. Plastered granite rubble, maybe with cob; stone rubble stacks, 2 of them with granite ashlar chimneyshafts; thatch roof. Plan and development: 4-room-and-through-passage plan house built down a gentle hillslope facing south-east. Small unheated room, probably a dairy, uphill at the right (north-eastern) end. Inner room has an axial stack backing onto the dairy. Hall has an axial stack backing onto the passage. Service end room has projecting gable-end stack. Since no internal inspection was available at the time of this survey it is not possible to outline the historic development of the house here. Nevertheless it seems likely that the original house was some form of open hall- house. It is tempting to interpret the house as a former Dartmoor longhouse but there is no evidence for this. Now 2 storeys throughout. Exterior: regular but not symmetrical 6-window front of circa 1920 casements except for the ground floor hall window which is C19 and its outer lights contain rectangular panes of leaded glass. Passage front doorway a little left of centre contains a C19 fielded panel door behind a C20 gabled porch on rustic posts. Roof is gable-ended. Interior was not available for inspection at the time of this survey. According to the owner it is mostly the result of the circa 1920 renovation; the fireplaces are blocked and no carpentry detail is exposed. Some of the beams were removed circa 1920.
Listing NGR: SX6768891863
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 94948
- 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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