Rowden Farmhouse
ROWDEN FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107311
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Rowden Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ROWDEN FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107311
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Rowden Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROWDEN 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:
- ROWDEN FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Witheridge
- National Grid Reference:
- SS8068116868
Details
WITHERIDGE
SS 81 NW
5/65
Rowden Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. C16 or early C17, considerable C20 external alteration. Cob and rubble
core, C20 rendering to frontage and left return, rear elevations with exposed cob,
stacks with tall C19 and C20 brick shafts, corrugated iron and asbestos sheeting
roofs.
Plan and development: L-plan. Appears to be a 3-unit and through-passage house
with the lower right end now extended and used as a barn, or this may have been the
original arrangement, hall to centre with front lateral stack with projecting
breast, inner room with a gable end stack, rear wing at right angles to the inner
room to left, with a gable end stack.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Frontage of house with 2 C20 casements to the inner room,
further C20 window to ground floor to hall. Door opening to right onto the through-
passage, rear opening blocked, recessed plank door; front obscured by C20 glazed
conservatory. Contiguous barn to the right, 3-door openings on the ground floor,
all with plank doors and wooden frames, small blocked square window opening, hay
loft door under the eaves with a plank door. Wing to the rear with a C20 casement
and C19 3-light casement with the glazing bars removed. Rear elevation with no
window openings.
Interior: not seen.
Roof: not seen.
Listing NGR: SS8068116868
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 97471
- 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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