Town Farmhouse
TOWN FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106780
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Town Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106780
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Town Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN 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:
- TOWN FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Martinhoe
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 66775 48737
Details
MARTINHOE MARTINHOE SS 64 SE 4/116 Town Farmhouse - - II Farmhouse, now used for holiday accommodation. Early C19, but possibly some earlier fabric concealed, extended at left end in late C19. Unrendered stone rubble with brick and stone dressings. Bitumenized slate roof with gable end and ridge brick stacks. 2-room and central staircase plan with gable-ended 2-storey service range attached to rear and added bay of 1-room plan with integral rear outshut at left end. A straight joint immediately to the right of the porch suggests the main range is of 2 phases, the left-hand side possibly containing earlier fabric, but the C19 remodelling has obscured any earlier detail. 2 storeys. 4-window range. Early C20 fenestration, 2-light casements, 6 panes per light to upper storey, 3-light casements to ground floor, 8 panes per light to left of porch, 6 panes per light to left of porch, 6 panes per light to right. Cambered brick lintels except to ground floor left-hand window which has stone voussoirs with drip above, and to upper storey windows to right of porch which have timber lintels. Slated gabled roof to stoney rubble porch with pointed arched doorway and C19 6- panelled inner door, the upper 2 panels glazed. Some C19 joinery survives including staircase, plank doors and fireplace mantleshelves to principal rooms.
Listing NGR: SS6677548737
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 97094
- 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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