Collins Farmhouse Including Barn and Shippon Attached at East End
COLLINS FARMHOUSE INCLUDING BARN AND SHIPPON ATTACHED AT EAST END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106724
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Collins Farmhouse Including Barn and Shippon Attached at East End
- Statutory Address:
- COLLINS FARMHOUSE INCLUDING BARN AND SHIPPON ATTACHED AT EAST END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106724
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Collins Farmhouse Including Barn and Shippon Attached at East End
- Statutory Address 1:
- COLLINS FARMHOUSE INCLUDING BARN AND SHIPPON ATTACHED AT EAST END
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:
- COLLINS FARMHOUSE INCLUDING BARN AND SHIPPON ATTACHED AT EAST END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chittlehamholt
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 63454 20394
Details
CHITTLEHAMHOLT SS 62 SW
3/48 Collins Farmhouse including barn and shippon attached at east end - - II
Former tenement farmhouse, now private dwelling with barn and shippon attached. Farmhouse and barn C17, both with C19 and C20 alterations. Shippon added in C19. Unrendered stone rubble with cob to rear. Farmhouse and barn under continuous thatched roof with gable ends. Shippon with corrugated iron roof with gable ends. Stone rubble stack to left gable end of farmhouse. Plan: Farmhouse at left end of 2 rooms, with direct entry into the larger left-hand heated room, smaller room to right with staircase running up rear wall and entering the larger room at its rear right-hand corner. Barn attached at right end with opposing rear doorways to central threshing floor. Lofted shippon attached at right end of barn completes the long range. Farmhouse 2 storeys. 2-window range. Hipped dormers with C20 2-light casements, 3 panes per light. Thatched roof to late C19 timber porch with plank inner door. Stable door to barn with cambered stone lintel and 2-light window to right with wooden shutters. Probably late C17 rear doorway with chamfered durns. Shippon has plank door to left of window opening with timber lintel. Interior: Farmhouse largely altered in C19 and C20. Cambered brick arch to fireplace which has bread oven. C19 winder staircase. Heavy straight roof trusses and purlins, but no access to roofspace. No rear outshut. Collins Farmhouse is the best surviving example of the majority of Chittlehamholt farmhouses which are situated in the former 'holt' or wood which was carved up and enclosed as small farms in the C17. Source: Rev. J H B Andrews "The Parish of Chittlehamholt".
Listing NGR: SS6345420394
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 97176
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Andrews, J H B, The Parish of Chittlehamholt, ()
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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