Lower Upcott Farmhouse
LOWER UPCOTT FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107667
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Upcott Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER UPCOTT FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107667
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Upcott Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER UPCOTT 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:
- LOWER UPCOTT FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chittlehampton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 62465 26832
Details
SWIMBRIDGE SS 62 NW 11/174 Lower Upcott Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Probably early C16, remodelled in C17 with C20 alterations. Painted rendered stone and cob. Slate roof with gable ends. Lateral hall stack to rear with offsets and projecting bread oven and brick stack at left end. Inserted lateral brick stack to rear of lower end. Originally through-passage plan, the front access now blocked and window inserted and hall and through-passage partition removed. Evidence of considerable rebuilding at upper end with the addition of an extra heated room beyond the inner room, but both said at one time to have housed animals. Lower end also extended and once used for animal accommodation. 2 storeys. 7 window range. C20 fenestration, principally 2-light casements, with two 3-light windows to each end of ground floor. 4 paned window inserted to former through-passage doorway. Inserted doorway at upper end with slate lean-to roof. Interior: stop-chamfered beams to hall, the other ceiling beams are roughly hewn. Rear through-passage C17 doorway has ovolo with chamfer moulded surround with large carved worn stops. Single truss over lower end, with slightly curving short feet and straight collar tenoned into mortices to the soffits of the principal rafters, with no sign of smoke-blackening to the truss but some to one of the purlins, possibly reused, suggesting the hall was originally open to the roof. Solid cob partitions rising to the apex of the roof at each end and between the upper end rooms take the place of timber trusses and supported the purlins but majority of the roof structure is C20.
Listing NGR: SS6246526832
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 98656
- 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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