Abbotsham Farmhouse
ABBOTSHAM FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106636
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Abbotsham Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ABBOTSHAM FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106636
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Abbotsham Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBOTSHAM 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:
- ABBOTSHAM FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brushford
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 66491 08319
Details
BRUSHFORD SS 60 NE 3/1 - Abbotsham Farmhouse - II Farmhouse. Probably C17 core, refurbished and enlarged in early C19. Plastered cob on rubble footings; cob or rubble stacks with C20 brick tops; thatch roof. Double depth plan house facing south-east comprising parallel ranges. Front range has 2 rooms with projecting end stacks 1-room either side of entrance lobby and stairs and back range has unheated service room, central cross passage and right (north-eastern) kitchen with projecting rear lateral stack. Secondary outshots across rear. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-window front comprising horned 16-pane sashes to left, the rest are 4-pane sashes. Central C20 plank door with contemporary gabled and corrugated asbestos roofed porch. Both roofs are hipped each end. Outshots have corrugated asbestos roof. Interior is largely result of C19 and C20 refurbishments. Only rear service room has exposed beams, 2 crossbeams with roughly-finished soffit-chamfers. All fireplaces blocked by C20 grates. Only rear block roof is accessible and it is made up of C19 king post trusses. Earlier features are probably hidden in front block. Abbotsham is the site of a medieval manor. Source: Devon SMR.
Listing NGR: SS6649108319
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95472
- 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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