Cholwich Farmhouse
CHOLWICH FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107486
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Cholwich Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CHOLWICH FARMHOUSE
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- Date:
- 2004-09-24
- Reference:
- IOE01/12426/34
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107486
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1960
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Cholwich Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHOLWICH 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:
- CHOLWICH FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cornwood
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 58655 61902
Details
SX 56 SE CORNWOOD CHOLWICH TOWN 6/26 29-3-so Cholwich Farmhouse GV (formerly listed as II Cholwick Town)
Farmhouse, formerly a manor house. Circa C16; possibly earlier origin. Rendered granite rubble with granite dressings. Low-pitched slate roof with gabled and hipped ends. L-shaped on plan with gables to north-east and south-west. Two storeys. Asymmetrical fenestration. The south-west gable has depressed arch granite doorway and window both with roll mouldings. Granite hollow-chamfered window frames some with mullions intact. Three-light window to ground floor of north wing with chamfered depressed arch doorway to side. Similar doorway to wall opposite enclosing yard to north. Large granite chimney stack with set-offs on east gable end. Including outbuilding adjoining north-west which has blocked depressed arch doorway to yard, and hollow-chamfered window frames. The roof is clad in corrugated iron. Interior: ceiling beams and open fireplaces. Moulded wood doorways and old rail-studded doors. The Cholwiches settled here in early C13 until the last of the family died in 1835 Ref W G Hoskins - Devon.
Listing NGR: SX5865561902
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 99131
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hoskins, W G, A New Survey of England in Devon, (1972)
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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