Hele Farmhouse
HELE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106568
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Hele Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HELE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106568
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Hele Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HELE 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:
- HELE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Nymet Rowland
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 71352 08594
Details
NYMET ROWLAND SS 70 NW 2/49 - Hele Farmhouse - II
Farmhouse. Early C17; probably C18 extension; modernised, rearranged and enlarged in mid C19. Main block of plastered cob on rubble footings, C19 rear block of exposed local stone rubble; stone rubble stacks, one disused, the other with C20 brick top; interlocking concrete tile roof (formerly thatch). L-shaped building with 3-room main block facing south-east. The early Cl7 house comprised the central and left (south-western) rooms with a large axial stack between serving back-to-back fireplaces and front lobby entrance. The third room was probably added on right (north-eastern) end in C18. Its end stack was rearranged in the C19 with the upgrading of the C18 room and the insertion of a new front door, entrance hall and stair at right end of central room. The rear block containing service rooms and stores was probably added at the same time at right angles to rear of the left room and may have replaced an early C17 service wing. 2 storeys. Regular and nearly symmetrical 5-window front of circa 1970 casements with glazing bars. The left end ground floor window replaced circa 1984 by a PVC casement with glazing bars. Both doors also circa 1984. Roof and rear block are gable-ended. The rear also contains circa 1970 casements with glazing bars and on the inner side of the rear block a flight of external stone stairs lead to a first floor doorway. Interior. The early Cl7 section is quite well-preserved. Both fireplaces here are blocked by C20 grates but the originals are said to survive. The central room has a large crossbeam with broad soffit-chamfers and truncated pyramid stops. The left room has a 12-panel intersecting beam ceiling with soffit chamfers. The original roof over these 2 rooms is mostly intact, comprising A-frame trusses with pegged dovetail lap-jointed collars and carrying 2 sets of threaded purlins. Disused mortises on the underside of the principal rafters suggest that the trusses originally were supported by upright posts set into the cob walls. The C18 addition room has a soffit-chamfered and runout-stopped crossbeam but the fireplace here is blocked and the roof is inaccessible. Most of the joinery throughout the main block is C19. The right room (the C18 addition) has panelled window shutters, and the doorway through the cob crosswall from that room to the C19 entrance hall has panelled reveals. The stairs have stick balusters. All the doors off the first floor corridor are C19.
Listing NGR: SS7135208594
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95602
- 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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