Hemerdon Farm House
Hemerdon Farmhouse, Hemerdon , PL7 5BU
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107436
- Date first listed:
- 02-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Hemerdon Farm House
- Statutory Address:
- Hemerdon Farmhouse, Hemerdon , PL7 5BU
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107436
- Date first listed:
- 02-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Hemerdon Farm House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Hemerdon Farmhouse, Hemerdon , PL7 5BU
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:
- Hemerdon Farmhouse, Hemerdon , PL7 5BU
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sparkwell
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 56246 57419
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14 October 2024 to update the name, address and reformat the text to current standards
SX 55 NE
10/113
SPARKWELL
HEMERDON
Hemerdon Farmhouse
(Formerly listed as Hemerdon Farm House)
GV
II
Farmhouse. C16 with early C18 wing and C20 extension. Granite rubble. Slate roof with gabled and hipped ends. Roof at higher end is lower level. Two storeys. C19 and C20 casement windows. External chimneystack with set-offs, on front, to right of cross passage doorway. Early C18 cross wing to left at lower end, with steeply pitched hipped roof. This south-west wing is rendered rubble and has large truncated chimneystack at the centre and has been extended at rear (north-west) in C20 (dated 1923).
Interior: The higher end may have been the hall, it is still single storey and has gallery ( ) over the cross passage with reset staircase with turned balusters, moulded handrail and closed string. Also in the hall is a small shell-shaped granite bowl reset in the back wall - and said to be possibly a holy water stoup. There is a squint from the lower room to the doorway. The kitchen also at the lower end has a plain chamfered granite chimneypiece with flat head. Hemerdon was a Domesday Manor.
Reference: W G Hoskins A New Survey of England-Devon", page 463.
Listing NGR: SX5624657419
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 99220
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hoskins, W G, A New Survey of England in Devon, (1972), 463
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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