Town Farmhouse
TOWN FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106884
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Town Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106884
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-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:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Templeton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS8869113976
Details
SS 81 SE
12/188
TEMPLETON
TEMPLETON
Town Farmhouse
GV
II
Farmhouse. Late C16/early C17 with C20 alterations and renovations. Whitewashed
rendered cob and stone rubble; end stacks, front lateral stack; tiled roof (formerly
thatched), half-hipped at left end, gabled at right end.
Plan: Present plan single depth, 3 rooms wide with a former cross passage containing
a later stair to right to centre. C17 kitchen at lower (right) end with curing
chamber, hall and heated parlour at higher end. Timber-framed wall construction in
central section of rear wall suggests former dairy or stair wing at rear which no
longer exists.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 5 window front with gabled porch to right to
centre into former passage. C20 glazing and casement windows probably of the 1960s
except for 2 more recent small pane timber casements.
Interior: Survival of C16 and C17 carpentry. The kitchen at the right end has a
chamfered scroll-stopped cross beam and massive open fireplace with a timber lintel,
bread oven and projecting curing chamber. The hall has a chamfered stopped cross
beam, the fireplace and lateral stack have been reduced by the insertion of a
window. The inner room has a moulded cross beam and a good fireplace with moulded
stopped ashlar jambs and a chamfered lintel. Former plank and muntin screens between
passage and kitchen and inner room and hall no longer exist although the fragments of
1 are said to survive above ceiling level.
Roof:. Side-pegged jointed cruck construction with 1 X apex C17 truss over the
kitchen end. Apex not inspected at time of survey (1986).
Listing NGR: SS8869113976
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 96836
- 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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