BALL HAM
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1107287
Date first listed: 18-Oct-1988
Statutory Address: BALL HAM
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Location
Statutory Address: BALL HAM
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Devon
District: North Devon (District Authority)
Parish: Bishop's Nympton
National Grid Reference: SS 78362 23427
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
SS 72 SE BISHOP'S NYMPTON
6/2 Ball Ham
GV II
Farmhouse, at one time blacksmith's house. Mid/late C17 with C19 or C20 addition at
the right end and C20 re-roofing. Rendered cob on stone rubble footings; wooden
shingle roof, gabled at ends (formerly thatched); axial stack with a rendered shaft.
Plan: Originally a 2 room plan house with a lobby entrance against the axial stack,
the left hand room heated, the right hand room unheated. A third room has been added
at the right end, and the middle room has been subdivided. A straight stair rises
against the rear wall of the left hand room - it is probably C19 and cuts through C17
joists.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4 window front with the front door to left of
centre and a second door at the right into the right hand room. C20 windows but
probably in earlier embrasures.
Interior: The centre room has closely-spaced axial ceiling beams; the left hand room
has a C17 scroll-stopped crossbeam and fireplace lintel and retains some old wall
plaster, which also survives on the first floor.
Roof: C20 trusses, probably post 1960 and probably dating from the removal of the
thatch.
The 2 room lobby entrance plan is less common in the region than the 3 room and
through passage arrangement.
Group value with the blacksmith's forge at Ash Mill.
Listing NGR: SS7836223427
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 97525
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.
End of official listing