Upcott Farmhouse
UPCOTT FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119768
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jun-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Upcott Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- UPCOTT FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119768
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jun-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Upcott Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- 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:
- UPCOTT FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Meeth
- National Grid Reference:
- SS5441508853
Details
SS50NW
1541/3/10002
MEETH
Upcott Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Circa mid-late C17; extended circa C18. Plastered cob on stone plinth, patched in stone rubble. Gable-ended roof clad in corrugated iron. Gable-end [now axial] stack with later brick shaft. PLAN: 3-room plan. Kitchen on left [SW] heated from large gable-end fireplace; smaller unheated room on right, and unheated central room with entrance lobby in front; straight staircase rising from entrance lobby. Circa C18 2-storey 1-room plan extension on left end, and later single- storey outbuilding on right end
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window SE front. Circa C18 and C19 2 and 3-light casements with glazing bars. Central doorway with large wooden frame and plank door and C20 glazed porch. 1-bay extension set back on left. Later lean-to on right end clad in corrugated iron. Cob exposed at rear; ground floor centre large wooden cyma-moulded mullion 4- light window, possible re-set.
INTERIOR: The fast floor is supported on large unchamfered transverse joists, and the ground floor rooms are partly ceiled. The lower left [SW] room has a large gable-end stone fireplace with a cambered chamfered bressumer with run-out stops and an oven with inserted clay oven with iron door. Plastered stud partitions. Chamfered doorframes with carpenter's mitres and hollow step stops from kitchen to entrance lobby and at bottom of stairs which rise directly into large right-hand chamber with later partition inserted, the two smaller chambers to left have original partitions with chamfered doorframes with carpenter's mitres and hollow step stops. Chambers ceiled. 4-bay roof with collar trusses, the cambered collars are dovetail lap-jointed to the principals and with trenched or threaded purlins.
Listing NGR: SS5441508853
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469321
- 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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