Dearswell Farmhouse Including Front Garden Area Wall to South
DEARSWELL FARMHOUSE INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN AREA WALL TO SOUTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107996
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Dearswell Farmhouse Including Front Garden Area Wall to South
- Statutory Address:
- DEARSWELL FARMHOUSE INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN AREA WALL TO SOUTH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107996
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1988
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Dearswell Farmhouse Including Front Garden Area Wall to South
- Statutory Address 1:
- DEARSWELL FARMHOUSE INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN AREA WALL TO SOUTH
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:
- DEARSWELL FARMHOUSE INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN AREA WALL TO SOUTH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Slapton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 80484 47085
Details
SLAPTON SX84NW 5/69 Dearswell Farmhouse including front garden 17.11.88 area wall to south
II
Farmhouse. Circa early C19. Rendered stone rubble, the front hung with rag slates. Asbestos slate hipped roof with red clay ridge tiles. Rendered red brick stacks at side and truncated lateral stack at back. Plan: Double depth almost square plan. 2 principal front rooms heated from side stacks entrance hall between containing staircase. At the back the kitchen to the left with a rear lateral stack, small dairy at the centre and a cider cellar to the right with a loft above. The cellar has an external doorway on the right side and the loft has an external doorway at the back and is an integral part of the house occupying the first floor of the rear right-hand corner of the house. The kitchen has a side doorway into a later C19 single storey outshut on the left side of the house. Exterior 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-window south front. Small C19 3-light casements with glazing bars, the centre first floor is a C19 2-light casement. Centred doorway with C20 glazed door and C20 glazed porch. Large single storey outshut on left-hand (west) side right-hand east side has C19 plank door to cellar with C19 fixed-light window to left above. Rear elevation has various C19 casements, truncated stack to right and blocked loft doorway to left. Including front wall enclosing small garden area with bowed front; C19, slate ruble with rustic quartz capping and gateway at centre. Interior: little altered and retaining most of its original simple joinery including panelled doors and staircase with stuck balusters, column newel and moulded hand rail. The original chimneypieces in the two front rooms have have been removed.
Listing NGR: SX8048447085
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 99855
- 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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