Cobley Farmhouse With Forecourt Wall and Gateway
COBLEY FARMHOUSE WITH FORECOURT WALL AND GATEWAY, COBLEY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1107331
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Cobley Farmhouse With Forecourt Wall and Gateway
- Statutory Address:
- COBLEY FARMHOUSE WITH FORECOURT WALL AND GATEWAY, COBLEY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1107331
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Cobley Farmhouse With Forecourt Wall and Gateway
- Statutory Address 1:
- COBLEY FARMHOUSE WITH FORECOURT WALL AND GATEWAY, COBLEY LANE
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:
- COBLEY FARMHOUSE WITH FORECOURT WALL AND GATEWAY, COBLEY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- East Worlington
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 75197 12054
Details
EAST WORLINGTON COBLEY LANE SS 71 SE 8/13 Cobley Farmhouse with forecourt wall and gateway 20.2.67 - II* Farmhouse. Early C17, earlier origin, refenestrated early C19. Rubble plinth, cob above, rendered and colourwashed; hipped straw-thatched roof, 2 large rubble gable end stacks, projecting lateral rubble stack at rear, later brick shaft. Plan: E-shaped on plan, main range has a 3-room-and-through-passage plan, lower end to the right heated by a large kitchen fireplace with an axial gable-end stack; hall with rear lateral stack, unheated inner room, 2-storeyed porch on front of through- passage, wing at front with end stack added at right-angles to inner room, outbuilding projecting at right-angles to lower end; C18 ciderhouse at right angles to rear of lower end. Originally probably an open hall house, perhaps with a smoke bay at lower end (suggested by a half beam set above and in front of the present fireplace). Wing at higher end with dated plasterwork:-"1771", but the wing itself probably slightly earlier. Exterior: 2 storeys, 1:2:1:2:1 windows, almost symmetrical, first and last in the projecting wings, that to centre in the porch. C19 multi-paned 2- and 3- light casements. Outer doorway to porch in a moulded stone surround with a semi-circular head, inner doorway with moulded door frame. C18 cider-house wing at rear, reused early wooden-mullion window. Interior of hall with 2 chamfered lateral ceiling beams with straight cut stops; lower room with 2 lateral ceiling beams and the half beam, chamfered and with big convex stops. Hall fireplace with ovolo-moulded wooden bressumer; wing at right- angles to the higher end has fireplace with granite jambs and wooden bressumer, dated plaster set over. Simple C19 staircase in passage. Roof: majority of roof not seen but cruck appears to exist over the higher end, majority of roof later with trenched purlins, probably C17. Forecourt with rubble walling, pantilled capping, gateway with large piers.
Listing NGR: SS7519712054
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 97418
- 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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