Coombes Head Farmhouse
COOMBES HEAD FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106518
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Coombes Head Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- COOMBES HEAD FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106518
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Coombes Head Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- COOMBES HEAD 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:
- COOMBES HEAD 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:
- ST1188715257
Details
ST 11 NW HEMYOCK
1/37 Coombes Head Farmhouse
-
- II
Farmhouse. Late C16 or early C17. Pebbledashed random rubble; half-hipped
thatched roof. 3-room, through-passage plan house, the service end to the right of
the passage. Hall heated by axial stack backing on to hall; service end heated by
internal end stack, both stacks with brick shafts. Inner room unheated. Stairs to
front of service and inner rooms. 2 storeys.
Exterior. Front: first floor with 2-light casement windows under eyebrow eaves;
Ground floor : 4-light casement windows to service end and hall; 3-light casement
to inner room. Rear (facing farm buildings) : 3 first floor 3-light casement
windows under eyebrow eaves; lean tos conceal inner room and service end : 4-light
C19 casement window to hall ; planked door to passage.
Interior: service end with chamfered cross ceiling beam with hollow step stops; a
former lintel to rear, chamfered with run-out stops, now over window, perhaps
originally a door. End fireplace with C19 carpentry. Hall with chamfered axial
ceiling beam with run-out stops to higher-end only. Chamfered and unstopped axial
beam to inner room.
Listing NGR: ST1188715257
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95692
- 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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