Moorlake Farmhouse
MOORLAKE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107069
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Moorlake Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MOORLAKE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107069
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Moorlake Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOORLAKE 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:
- MOORLAKE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Newton St. Cyres
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 89381 97455
Details
NEWTON ST CYRES HALF MOON SX 89 NE 5/17 Moorlake Farmhouse - - II House, formerly farmhouse. Early-mid C17 with older elements. Plastered cob on rubble footings; cob stacks with C19 brick tops; thatched roof. Long building of 2-storeys; 3 rooms to ground floor, 4 to first. Gable stack to right (east) and axial stack left of centre heating the rooms between. 2 front doors; right door to through passage between 2 heated rooms; left door to large western room, an agricultural store isolated from main house. Roof is hipped to left. Irregular fenestration being one C19 or C20 casement to each domestic room. Main door has C20 porch with thatched, hipped roof. House of two builds. Earlier part to left (west) end is divided from early-mid C17 main build by solid cob wall pierced only at first floor level. The main house has 2-room plan with through passage between. The larger room, the 'hall', is west of passage. Its western cross wall is taken up by a blocked cob fireplace and newel stair. Ceiling beams in both rooms chamfered with scroll stops; beam in older store-room has step stops. Oak- mullioned windows and a cob wall from an early outshut survive to rear. Most of early structure is hidden.
Listing NGR: SX8938197455
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 96369
- 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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