Ashwell Farmhouse
ASHWELL FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162475
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Ashwell Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ASHWELL FARMHOUSE
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- Date:
- 2002-10-19
- Reference:
- IOE01/08614/30
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162475
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Ashwell Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ASHWELL 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:
- ASHWELL FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dolton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS5540213236
Details
SS 51 SE
5/36
DOLTON
SS 51 SE
Ashwell Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Mid C17 with C19 and C20 additions. Plastered cob walls. Hipped thatch
roof. Rendered axial stack.
Plan: 2-room plan with baffle entry in front of axial stack which heats both rooms.
Larger hall to right, probably parlour to the left with shallow 2-storeyed porch in
front of entry. Original position of stairs unclear - they are now at the end of
the right-hand room. In the C19 and C20 outshuts were added along the rear wall.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front of mainly late C19 or early C20
2-light small-paned casements. 1st floor right-hand window is a C17 small chamfered
2-light wooden mullion window with decorative leaded lights. Shallow 2 storey porch
to left of centre has a square doorway with a C19 plank door behind it. At the rear
is a C19 outshut to right and a C20 one to its left, both have plank doors. To
right of centre above the outshuts is a C17 chamfered wooden framed leaded light.
Interior: hall has open fireplace with chamfered wooden lintel. Left-hand room has
fireplace with chamfered and jewel-stopped wooden lintel. Cloam oven with door.
Roof: consists of substantial straight principal rafters which are crossed at the
apex with a diagonal ridge. Purlins are trenched with collars lapped on or slightly
set in. The timbers are all slightly darkened but it seems unlikely that this would
be smoke-blackening.
This is a unaltered farmhouse with a very picturesque exterior forming part of a
traditional farm group and with great landscape value.
Listing NGR: SS5540213236
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 90827
- 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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