Tristford Farmhouse

TRISTFORD FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1108227
Date first listed:
26-Apr-1993
List Entry Name:
Tristford Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
TRISTFORD FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1108227
Date first listed:
26-Apr-1993
List Entry Name:
Tristford Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
TRISTFORD FARMHOUSE

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
TRISTFORD FARMHOUSE

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

County:
Devon
District:
South Hams (District Authority)
Parish:
Harberton
National Grid Reference:
SX 77475 58667

Details

In the entry for: HARBERTON Harberton Tristford Farmhouse

II SX 76 58-SX 77 58 14/420

The description shall be amended to read-: HARBERTON

SX76587758 HARBERTON 1309- /14/420 Tristford Farmhouse 26/04/93 II

Farmhouse. Probably C17, remodelled and extended c1860. Painted and mostly rendered stone rubble; gabled slate roof, tarred to outshut; rendered stacks with moulded cornices, restored cl991. L-shaped plan, the front block representing a remodelling and extension c1860 of the C17 house which now constitutes the rear service wing. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-window garden front (facing east) has 6/6-pane sashes and 4-panel door with overlight set behind early C20 glazed porch. The rear wing has similar sashes to left-hand (south) return wall and a C19 one-storey outshut added to the right-hand wall, which also retains C17 projection for housing stairs. Interior: mid C19 joinery, including panelled doors and staircase with turned balusters. Some C17 features are probably hidden beneath later alterations, and a winder stair of probably C17 date survives inside the stair turret at junction of the hall and the rear wing.

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HARBERTON SX7658-SX7758 HARBERTON 14/420 Tristford Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. Circa C17 or earlier, remodelled and extended in mid C19. Rendered stone rubble. Slate roof with gabled ends. Rendered gable end chimney stacks with moulded cornices, and similar stack at junction with rear wing. Plan: Probably a 3 room and cross or through passage plan, probably with an axial hall stack backing onto the passage and gable end stack at higher end. Solid masonry wall between hall and large inner room. The lower east end including the passage was demolished and rebuilt in mid C19 at right angles, to form the main front of the house which consists of two principal rooms and a central stair hall. The hall and inner room of the original house has its eaves raised and became the service wing at the rear of the left hand room of the mid C19 addition with a single storey rear outshut in the angle. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3 window east front to mid C19 addition. Large C19 12-pane sashes. Central doorway with 4 panel door and plain rectangular fanlight, enclosed within a circa early C20 glazed porch. The out south facing side of the rear wing has been remodelled with 2 12- pane sashes on both floors. The inner north face of the wing has a projecting stair turret and a large single storey lean-to outshut in the angle. Interior: Most of the mid C19 internal joinery survives, including panelled doors and the staircase with turned balusters. In the rear wing a stair turret at junction of former hall and inner room has stone newel stairs. The hall fireplace is blocked. The roof is entirely C19 with softwood trusses.

Listing NGR: SX7747558667

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
101324
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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