Guphill Farmhouse
Guphill Farmhouse, West Anstey, EX36 3NZ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107320
- Date first listed:
- 15-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Guphill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- Guphill Farmhouse, West Anstey, EX36 3NZ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107320
- Date first listed:
- 15-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Guphill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- Guphill Farmhouse, West Anstey, EX36 3NZ
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:
- Guphill Farmhouse, West Anstey, EX36 3NZ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- West Anstey
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 84143 28105
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15 August 2022 to correct a typo in name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SS 82 NW
1/43
WEST ANSTEY
Guphill Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. C17 with probably earlier origins, left end remodelled and heightened in late C19. Rendered stone rubble and cob, with some brick at left end. Thatch roof with gable end to right, and slate roof to higher left end. Axial brick shaft to hall stack, stone rubble stack at right end and capped lateral stack to rear left end.
Plan: Three-room and cross-passage plan, with hall stack backing onto wide passage containing staircase. The inner room end has been largely rebuilt and a third storey added in the late C19, and was possibly in separate occupation at this time as it had separate direct front access (now blocked) and until late C20 contained a separate staircase. Dairy outshut apparently largely rebuilt in C19 to rear of hall. The hall ceiling beam would suggest a C17 date for the farmhouse, but some probably smoke-blackened re-used roof timbers suggest it may have earlier origins. The lower end may also have been largely remodelled in the C18, when the main range was reroofed.
Exterior: two storeys, inner room end unusually three storeys. Five-window range. All C20 two-light casements, three panes per light. Thatched leanto roof to porch. Blocked doorway to inner room end.
Interior: solid wall partitions at each end of hall. Ovolo-moulded cross ceiling beam to hall, timber lintel replaced to hall fireplace which has dressed stone jambs and bread oven. C17 four-centred arched doorway to rear of hall with chamfered surround and, interestingly, a small incised cross above the centre of the arch. Old plank door with cover strips. Lower end has single plain chamfered cross ceiling beam and rounded back to fireplace which has been partially rebuilt in C20. Roof structure entirely C18 or possibly early C19, with pegged lapped collars to trusses with straight principals and waney purlins and rafters. Some of the battens and one re-used rafter are smoke-blackened.
Listing NGR: SS8414328105
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 97393
- 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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