Beeson Farmhouse

BEESON FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1107965
Date first listed:
25-Mar-1991
List Entry Name:
Beeson Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
BEESON FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1107965
Date first listed:
25-Mar-1991
List Entry Name:
Beeson Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
BEESON 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BEESON FARMHOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Devon
District:
South Hams (District Authority)
Parish:
Stokenham
National Grid Reference:
SX 81051 40716

Details

STOKENHAM BEESON SX84SW Beeson Farmhouse 8/188

GV II Farmhouse. Crica 1830 (datestones 1805 and 1831) with small later C19 extension. Slate rubble with red brick window arches. Left hand (south west) are rendered. Slate roof with gabled ends. Gable end stacks with short red brick shafts, right hand with slate cowels. Plan: Double depth plan with 2 principal front rooms, central entrance hall probably with staircase at the back and 2 rear service rooms the right hand the kitchen with a large rear lateral stack, the left hand probably the pantry. Under the front of the house there is a cellar. Later C19 work- house added on rear right hand corner. Exterior: 2 storeys with cellar under the front. Symmetrical 3-window south east front. C19 16-pane sashes with red brick flat arches and slate sills, right hand first floor sash is a replacement. Central doorway with C19 panelled and glazed door and open porch with Tuscan columns and hipped slate canopy. The right hand end has C19 12-pane sash, later 2-light sash and C20 plastic windows above. Rear elevation has large lateral stack with set-offs and fell stone rubble shaft with slate weathering and yellow clay lourved pot. To right of stack a C20 stair window. Interior: Not inspected. Note: A stone in the front wall under the first floor left hand window is inscribed "1805, 1831 (SS?)". 1831 is the most likely date and "SS" probably initials.

Listing NGR: SX8105140716

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
99972
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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