Range of Farm Buildings Around Courtyard and Pump to East of Croft Farmhouse

RANGE OF FARM BUILDINGS AROUND COURTYARD AND PUMP TO EAST OF CROFT FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1146552
Date first listed:
28-May-1987
List Entry Name:
Range of Farm Buildings Around Courtyard and Pump to East of Croft Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
RANGE OF FARM BUILDINGS AROUND COURTYARD AND PUMP TO EAST OF CROFT FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1146552
Date first listed:
28-May-1987
List Entry Name:
Range of Farm Buildings Around Courtyard and Pump to East of Croft Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
RANGE OF FARM BUILDINGS AROUND COURTYARD AND PUMP TO EAST OF CROFT 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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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:
RANGE OF FARM BUILDINGS AROUND COURTYARD AND PUMP TO EAST OF CROFT FARMHOUSE

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

County:
Devon
District:
West Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Jacobstowe
National Grid Reference:
SS 57016 00315

Details

JACOBSTOWE SS 50 SE 7/247 Range of farm buildings around - courtyard and pump to east of 28.5.87 Croft Farmhouse GV II* Range of farm buildings including a barn, stables, pigsties and stores. Probably C17 and C18 with some C19 alterations. Cob and stone rubble. Slate gable-ended roofs at various levels, partly reclad in corrugated sheet steel and corrugated asbestos. Plan: the buildings are arranged around 4 sides of a small courtyard in front of Croft Farmhouse. q.v. The barn and stables on the south east side is attached to the higher south end of the house and extended at the east end in the C19 and with a horse engine house on the outer south side. On the north side of the yard there is a granary attached to the lower north end of the house by a short section of wall with a doorway througn providing access to the courtyard from outside. On the east front of the yard linking the granary and barn there is a low range including pigsties and probably stores. Exterior: the granary on the north side has a flight of external stone steps up to the loft doorway on the inner courtyard side; at the west end a ground floor doorway and the east gable end has a C17 3-light, wooden mullion window on the first floor with a similar, but 2-light, window in the gable above. The low pigsty range on the east side has 2 plank doors on the outer east elevation and a small single-light chamfered window to the left; the inner west elevation of the pigsty range is partly clad in vertical boards with 3 hatches to the sties. The barn range on the south side has 3 pairs of pigeon holes under the eaves and 2 plank doors on the ground floor facing the yard. The east end of the barn has been extended in stone rubble where there are large opposing barn doorways and a horse engine house on the outer south side. The courtyard is paved with small pitched stones and has a late C19 cast iron water pump against the front of the house with a granite trough.

Listing NGR: SS5701600315

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
93271
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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