Higher Kitcott Farmhouse Including Adjoining Stables
HIGHER KITCOTT FARMHOUSE INCLUDING ADJOINING STABLES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107303
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Kitcott Farmhouse Including Adjoining Stables
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER KITCOTT FARMHOUSE INCLUDING ADJOINING STABLES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107303
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1987
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Jan-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Kitcott Farmhouse Including Adjoining Stables
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER KITCOTT FARMHOUSE INCLUDING ADJOINING STABLES
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:
- HIGHER KITCOTT FARMHOUSE INCLUDING ADJOINING STABLES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Romansleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 75030 19622
Details
In the entry for
ROMANSLEIGH Lower Kitcott Farmhouse SS71 NE including adjoining stables
4/47 II
the address shall be amended to read Higher Kitcott Farmhouse including adjoining stables
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ROMANSLEIGH SS 71 NE 4/47 Lower Kitcott Farmhouse - including adjoining stables - II
Farmhouse. Probably C16 or C17, altered in circa mid C19 when kitchen and stables added. Rubble and cob, rendered and whitewashed, painted corrugated-iron roof, C19 brick stack shafts. Plan: single room depth, 3 room-and-through-passage plan, lower end to left; lower room and through-passage amalgamated C19 to form a single large room; hall to centre with rear lateral stack, passageway inserted between hall and inner room with a C19 straight-flight staircase, inner room with an axial gable end fireplace. At right angles to the lower end a high single storeyed kitchen wing with attached stables. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window range, predominantly C19 20-pane sashes, C20 2-light casement to left of ground floor. 2 door openings, to right a 6-panelled C19 door, to left C19 plank door in the angle of the projecting wing. Windowless at the rear. Attached short range of stables, small opening with plank doors. Interior: inaccessible at time of survey. Much refurbished with C18 and C19 joinery, fireplaces blocked by modern grates; dairy on ground floor at lower end with slate shelves. Roof: there is evidence of a cruck truss over the hall part of the house with collar beam, C18 roof set over. This is the only cruck truss that appears to remain, remainder of roof believed C18, raised eaves.
Listing NGR: SS7503019622
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 97452
- 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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