Coombeshead Farmhouse
COOMBESHEAD FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106814
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Coombeshead Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- COOMBESHEAD FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106814
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Coombeshead Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- COOMBESHEAD 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:
- COOMBESHEAD FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Arlington
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 62290 39538
Details
ARLINGTON SS 63 NW 7/1 Coombeshead Farmhouse - GV II Farmhouse. Probably late C17, extended at left end in C18 or early C19, and to rear in C19. Rendered stone rubble. Slate roofs with gable ends. Rendered stone rubble axial and left gable end stacks with tapered caps and drips. Brick stack to right gable end rebuilt in C20. Originally a 2-room symmetrical plan with a principal room each side of cross- passage, the passage terminating where the stairs run up laterally from the rear right-hand corner of the left-hand room. In C18 or early C19, a 2-storey extension was added at the lower left end as a kitchen with a stair turret, now demolished, to the rear right-hand corner. This part may have been occupied as a separate unit. In C19 a gable-ended 2-storey service wing was added to rear creating an overall T- shaped plan. 2 storeys. 3-window range. Principally C19 fenestration, all 2-light casements 6 panes per light. Gable slate roof to porch with 1/2-glazed inner door with margin glazing bars. Interior: largely altered in C19 and C20, but C19 joinery mostly intact including integral bench in kitchen. Beams cased in. Fireplace lintel in left-hand room has thin chamfer with straight-cut stops. 2 pegged trusses with side-pegged collars and purlins resting on back of principals to original range, single pegged truss with tiered purlins to extension.
Listing NGR: SS6229039538
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 96975
- 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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