WEST SHERFORD FARM HOUSE INCLUDING OUTBUILDING ADJOINING ON NORTH EAST
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1107829
Date first listed: 23-Apr-1952
Statutory Address: WEST SHERFORD FARM HOUSE INCLUDING OUTBUILDING ADJOINING ON NORTH EAST
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Location
Statutory Address: WEST SHERFORD FARM HOUSE INCLUDING OUTBUILDING ADJOINING ON NORTH EAST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Devon
District: South Hams (District Authority)
Parish: Brixton
National Grid Reference: SX 54866 53471
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
SX 55 SW BRIXTON
3/22
23/4/52 West Sherford Farm
House including
outbuilding adjoining
on north east
GV II
Farmhouse and adjoining outbuilding. Circa C16 with C17 alterations and additions.
Stone rubble. Steeply pitched slate roof with gabled, half-hipped and hipped ends.
Two storeys. Long six window range. The west part appears to have been heightened
in C17 and extended at front by two bays with hipped roofs and four-light
hollow-chamfered stone mullion windows with hood moulds, the ground floor windows
have four-centred arch lights. To the right at centre, a cross-passage doorway with
four-centred arch and roll moulding with large rendered chimney stack at side, with
set-offs. Two-light granite window above doorway. The lower right hand (east) end
has a range of casements, stack on the rear, wall and an outbuilding at right angles,
to north east with external stairs to loft and pigeon holes. At the west end a
two-storey, one-bay late C19 addition. At the rear (north) a late C18/C19 wing.
Interior: main fireplace in the hall is blocked. The room east of the cross-passage
has stopped chamfered ceiling beams and fireplace with chamfered wooden bressumer.
Fireplace is in the C17 extension at front has plain chamfered granite chimneypiece.
West Sherford was granted after 1582 to Francis Drake after his circumnavigation.
The former provisional lists states:- "The main block has high pitched roof, which
retains some arched principals. It is possible that originally the principal room
was on the first floor".
Reference: Transactions of the Devonshire Association 1945 Vol. 77 page 128-130.
Listing NGR: SX5486653471
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 100303
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
'Transactions of the Devonshire Association' in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, , Vol. 77, (1945), 128-130
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing