North Forder Farmhouse
NORTH FORDER FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1106127
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- North Forder Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- NORTH FORDER FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1106127
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- North Forder Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- NORTH FORDER 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:
- NORTH FORDER FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Gidleigh
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX6710289577
Details
SX 68 NE GIDLEIGH FORDER
3/191 North Forder Farmhouse
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GV II*
Farmhouse, former Dartmoor longhouse. Whitewashed granite stone rubble with large
dressed quoins; granite stack with its original granite ashlar chimney shaft; thatch
roof.
Plan: originally a 3-room-and-through-passage plan Dartmoor longhouse facing south-
east and built down a relatively steep hillslope. The inner room, at the left
(south-west) end, is terraced so deeply into the hillslope that the eaves of the
roof nearly touch the ground. The hall has an axial stack backing onto the former
passage (it is now blocked). The shippon, at the downhill right end, has now been
brought into domestic use. Since no interior inspection was available at the time
of this survey it is not possible to describe the development of the house although
it seems likely that the house begun as a late medieval open hall house. Now 2
storeys.
Exterior: irregular front fenestration comprising 3 ground floor and 2 first floor
windows, all C19 casements with glazing bars. The house is quite low and the centre
section of the eaves rises to accommodate the first floor windows. The front
passage doorway is set a little right of centre and contains a possible C18 plain
oak frame containing an old plank door. The roof is half-hipped to left and hipped
to right. First floor casement in left end wall. The right end wall is blind but
appears to contain a blocked vent or dung hatch with a blocked drain below.
Interior was not available for inspection at the time of this survey but obviously
has had only minor and superficial modernisations in the C20. The roof is very low
which might mean that there is a late medieval, or at latest C17, roof structure.
Before any modernisation or alteration to the house a thorough internal survey
should be undertaken lest early structure or detail be destroyed. This is an area
rich in farmhouses dating from the late C15, C16 or C17 and this appears to be a
classic unmodernised example. Moreover it is a very attractive Dartmoor farmhouse.
Listing NGR: SX6710289577
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 94721
- 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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