Knowle Farmhouse
KNOWLE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106551
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Knowle Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- KNOWLE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106551
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Knowle Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- KNOWLE 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:
- KNOWLE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Clayhidon
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 17461 10190
Details
ST 11 SE CLAYHIDON 6/12 Knowle Farmhouse - II Farmhouse. Mid to late C17. Random rubble chert; gable end corrugated iron roof. A 2 room plan house; the rooms are of unequal size. There may have been a central passage originally (see the remains of a rough partition to the rear of axial stack fireplace), but this position is now occupied by a bathroom. Right-hand room heated by internal end stack; left-hand room heated by an axial stack; both with brick shafts. Exterior Front: 3 window range; one 3-light and two 2-light C19 casement windows to first floor; 2 C19 3-light casement windows to ground floor, one to either side of a pair of doors (one planked, one glazed; the house was formerly 2 cottages). Breezeblock porch. Later continuous rear outshut, probably C19, with C19 windows and door. Interior: one chamfered ceiling cross beam with hollow step stops to each room. Details of fireplaces obscured, but they still survive behind the present grates. Roof trusses with long straight principals and large roughly finished purlins.
Listing NGR: ST1746110190
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95669
- 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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