Zempson Farmhouse Including Shippon Adjoining West
ZEMPSON FARMHOUSE INCLUDING SHIPPON ADJOINING WEST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1146963
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Zempson Farmhouse Including Shippon Adjoining West
- Statutory Address:
- ZEMPSON FARMHOUSE INCLUDING SHIPPON ADJOINING WEST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1146963
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Zempson Farmhouse Including Shippon Adjoining West
- Statutory Address 1:
- ZEMPSON FARMHOUSE INCLUDING SHIPPON ADJOINING WEST
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:
- ZEMPSON FARMHOUSE INCLUDING SHIPPON ADJOINING WEST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dean Prior
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 71259 62897
Details
DEAN PRIOR - SX 76 SW 6/4 Zempson Farmhouse including shippon adjoining west
II
Farmhouse with adjoining Shippon with loft over. Circa C17 or earlier remodelled and extended in C18/19. Stone rubble with colour-washed rendered front. Bitumenised slurried slate roof with gabled ends, and some early crested ridge tiles to left of centre over former lower end. Stone rubble chimney stack. Probably originally a three room and through passage plan with laterall hall stack on rear wall and slightly projecting stair turret at rear of lower end. Inner room replaced by circa C19 cross wing and circa C18 shippon at right angles at lower end. Two storeys, long five window range. First floor circa late C18/early C19 circa, light casements with leaded panes. Right hand two-light casements. Ground floor C20 casements. To right of centre doorway in two storey projection (qv Gisperdown and Dockwell Farmhouse in South Brent) with C20 gabled porch. Lateral stack and rectangular stair turret on rear wall and blocked doorway possibly to original through passage. To right of front, at higher end, a cross wing with late C19 casements. Projecting at right angles to left, lower end, a circa C18 shippon, stone rubble with granite quoins bitumenised slate gabled-ended roof. External stone stairs on west side, to loft. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SX7125962897
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 99257
- 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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