Reeds Farmhouse
REEDS FARMHOUSE, EXETER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1146646
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Reeds Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- REEDS FARMHOUSE, EXETER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1146646
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Reeds Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- REEDS FARMHOUSE, EXETER ROAD
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:
- REEDS FARMHOUSE, EXETER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Beaford
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 55298 15076
Details
BEAFORD EXETER ROAD (north-east side), SS 5515 Beaford
20/46 Reeds Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse, possibly latterly divided. Probably early to mid C17 with probably mid to late C19 internal alterations, and further late C20 alterations and additions. Rendered over stone rubble to ground floor and cob to first floor. Wheatstraw thatched roof. Old brick end stack to right and C20 brick end stack to left (rebuilding of earlier stack). Plan and development: C17 three-room plan, with end stacks and unheated central room. Entrances into central room and right-hand room, possibly suggesting that the house may have been, divided at some time. Probably C18 or C19 outshut (probably formerly dairy) at rear of left-hand room and C20 flat-roofed addition to rear of central room. Two storeys with one-storey additions to rear. Exterior: Asymmetrically - fenestrated front. Four windows to first floor and 3 to ground floor; late C20 two-light plastic casements in old openings. Doorways off- centre to left and right, between windows, with late C20 doors. Interior: Left-hand ground-floor room has C17 open stone fireplace with chamfered wooden lintel (opening later reduced in width) and square recess in wall to left with shelves. Left-hand ground-floor room also has C17 chamfered beam with broach stops reused as lintel above (possibly inserted in the C19 to create a larger opening for a shop window - window since reduced). First floor and roofspace not inspected.
Listing NGR: SS5529815076
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91664
- 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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