Waddicombe Farmhouse
WADDICOMBE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106677
- Date first listed:
- 15-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Waddicombe Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WADDICOMBE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106677
- Date first listed:
- 15-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Waddicombe Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WADDICOMBE 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:
- WADDICOMBE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- East Anstey
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 86802 27114
Details
EAST ANSTEY WADDICOMBE SS 82 NE 2/14 Waddicombe Farmhouse - - II
Farmhouse. Late C16 or early C17, but possibly earlier fabric concealed. Painted stone rubble, some rendered cob and brick. Slate roof with gable ends. Tall front lateral hall stack of unrendered stone rubble with tapered cap. Small rendered stack across rear right-hand corner. Plan: 3-room-and-cross-passage plan, with lower end to right. Cross-passage divided axially in C20 to create small rear room. C20 staircase at lower end of hall. Dairy beyond at upper end. Lower end heated by inserted fireplace across rear right-hand corner. Separate front entrances to dairy, cross-passage and lower end. Circa 1920 - 1930 the eaves were raised and roof replaced, and lower end staircase removed when first floor was raised. Exterior: 2 storeys. 4-window range. Principally early to mid C20 fenestration with a 2-light and 3-light casement 2 panes per light to left of stack, 2 C19 2 light 3 panes per light to right. Ground floor has plank door at left end, 3 light 3 panes per light to hall casement, plank door to cross-passage doorway, the opening having been infilled slightly in C20, and 2 light casement 2 panes per light to left of plank door to right end. Interior: Mostly altered in early to mid C20, but a 4-centred arched doorway with chamfered surround survives between hall and cross-passage, and hall has large chamfered cross-beam with run out stops. Axial beam to dairy boxed in. Solid wall partitions between hall and dairy and cross-passage and lower end. Roof structure replaced in C20 but it is possible that the foot of a cruck truss survives bedded into the rear wall of the hall.
Listing NGR: SS8680227114
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 97366
- 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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