Bullhornstone Farmhouse
BULLHORNSTONE FARMHOUSE
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107397
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bullhornstone Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BULLHORNSTONE FARMHOUSE
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2001-07-11
- Reference:
- IOE01/04922/13
- Rights:
- © Mr Brian Richards. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107397
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bullhornstone Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BULLHORNSTONE 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:
- BULLHORNSTONE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- South Brent
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX6788460041
Details
SOUTH BRENT -
SX 66 SE
5/189 Bullhornstone
- Farmhouse
- II
Farmhouse. Dated 1769, extended in C19. Granite rubble rendered at rear.
Dry slate roof gabled at right hand higher end and hipped at lower left hand
end. Three room plan with wide passage/stair hall between hall and lower room.
Lateral stacks at rear of hall, smaller rear lateral stack to lower room, and
another at higher gable end. Dairy wing containing second stairs added to rear
of higher end and a lean-to outshut in the angle. The higher end room is possibly
an addition or rebulding, for there is a straight joint in the masonry of the
front wall, and it has its own direct entry of the front and a loft door in
the higher gable end. However, the internal partition between higher end room
and hall is of plastered stud construction and not of solid masonry to be expected
of an external wall. Two storeys. Regular four window range, all with flat
dressed stone arches and C20 three-light casements. Glazed and panelled door
to left of centre with C19 gabled stone rubble porch. Datestone beneath eaves
of centre inscribed 'W' over '1769'. Right hand doorway with C20 door. Rear
has large projecting lateral hall stack of centre with set-offs. Right hand
(lower room) internal lateral stack. Dairy wing to left (higher end) with half-
hipped slate roof and lean-to outshut in the angle, overlapping the hall stack.
Higher gable end of main range to north east has loft doorway. interior: Wide
passage hall with original framed dog-leg stairs at rear with moulded string
and handrail, turned balusters and square newels and with terminal column newel.
Some C18 fielded two-panel doors survive. Lower room has alcoves on either
side of blocked fireplace with panelled and fluted pilasters, kegblock in round
arch, and cupboards below with diagonal cross panels, and with dentilled cornice
to ceiling above. Lower room fireplace and hall fireplace blocked with C20
grates. Plastered stud internal partitions separating principal rooms. C19
secondary stairs at junction of rear dairy and inner room.
Listing NGR: SX6788460041
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 99333
- 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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 21-Jun-2026 at 05:45:21.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.