Browning's Farmhouse
BROWNING'S FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106517
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Browning's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BROWNING'S FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106517
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Browning's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROWNING'S 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:
- BROWNING'S FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hemyock
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 12567 13107
Details
ST 11 SW HEMYOCK 5/36 Browning's Farmhouse - - II Detached house, formerly a farmhouse. Mid C17 with later alterations and additions. Roughcast rubble chest with some cob; hipped and gable end roof, thatched to the front, with corrugated iron to rear. Plan : a 2-room, central passage plan house, with a wing to the rear of the right-hand room, and, at a slightly different alignment to the left, a barn of jointed cruck construction (now converted to a dwelling). Later wing stands forward of the left-hand room. Site of newel stair at rear of cross passage. Right-hand room and wing heated by end stacks, both with brick shafts. 2 storeys. Exterior. Front: 2-window range with C19 2-light casement window to first floor, the eaves line rising to cover them both; ground floor : half glazed door under thatched porch, with 3-light casement window to the right. Front wing with C20 2- light casement window to each floor. Right-hand side elevation: the wing projects slightly from the end of the main range; one single, and one 2-light casement windows, the latter with 18 leaded panes and early C19 catch to middle light. Rear: C20 addition obscures inner face of wing; slight bulge to left of present rear door marks site of the newel. Interior: right-hand room with chamfered cross ceiling beams, hollow step stops. Fireplace with lintel and jambs with continuous chamfer and one remaining scroll stop. The plan is complicated by later modifications; a newel standing forward of the left-hand jamb of the fireplace (now in its turn replaced) and an axial screen (now dismantled but the mortices of the studs visible in headbeam) that forms a rear passage. Left-hand room with an axial half beam, formerly adjacent to former front wall, since exposed when front wing added. Rear wing fireplace, the lintel chamfered with scroll stops; a former smoking chamber survives beside the fireplace. Renewed roof trusses. (The adjacent barn was of jointed cruck construction : these have been removed, but were seen at the resurvey before destruction; side pegged at elbow).
Listing NGR: ST1256713107
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95691
- 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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