Rull Farmhouse Including Front Railings and Cob Wall Adjoining to North East
RULL FARMHOUSE INCLUDING FRONT RAILINGS AND COB WALL ADJOINING TO NORTH EAST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163044
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Rull Farmhouse Including Front Railings and Cob Wall Adjoining to North East
- Statutory Address:
- RULL FARMHOUSE INCLUDING FRONT RAILINGS AND COB WALL ADJOINING TO NORTH EAST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163044
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Rull Farmhouse Including Front Railings and Cob Wall Adjoining to North East
- Statutory Address 1:
- RULL FARMHOUSE INCLUDING FRONT RAILINGS AND COB WALL ADJOINING TO NORTH EAST
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:
- RULL FARMHOUSE INCLUDING FRONT RAILINGS AND COB WALL ADJOINING TO NORTH EAST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Whimple
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 04331 98004
Details
WHIMPLE SY 09 NW 5/207 Rull Farmhouse including front railings and cob wall adjoining to 11.ll.52 north east - II
Large farmhouse. Parts are C17 but most rebuilt in the mid C19. Plastered stone rubble, some sections are brick and some include cob; stone rubble stacks topped with C19 and C20 brick; thatch roof. Plan: the farmhouse faces south-east. The main block has a double depth plan, a front and back room either side of a central entrance hall with main stair to rear. An axial stack serving back-to-back fireplaces heats the left rooms and the front right room has an end stack. A 1-room plan dairy block projects to rear of the right room. An L-plan service block projects to right (north-east) of the rear right room. The main part has a 2-room plan with central through-passage. Both rooms have end stacks and the largest room, backing onto the main block is the kitchen. A third room projects at right angles to rear of the right room and has a disused end stack. The service block is a refurbished C17 building but the roof here was not available for inspection at the time of this survey. House is 2 storeys. Exterior: main block has a symmetrical 3-window front arranged about a central doorway which contains a 4-panel doorway and overlight with margin panes. Flat- roofed porch has moulded entablature and replacement posts. Each side are 20-pane sashes and at first floor level 16-pane sashes (the centre one is smaller). Eaves carried on pairs of shaped brackets and roof is hipped both ends. Left end has 2- window front; similar sashes to the main front. At the back a round-headed sash lights the stairs. The service wing contains mostly C19 and C20 casements but also includes a couple of C17 oak windows with chamfered mullions. Interior: contains a good deal of mid C19 joinery and other detail including a geometric stair with open string, stick balusters and mahogany handrail. Little carpentry detail is exposed in the service block but the rear room has a chamfered and scroll-stopped crossbeam and a blocked cob fireplace with plain oak lintel. Roof was not available for inspection at the time of this survey. From the right end of the main front a tall plastered cob wall with thatch coping curves forward as a quadrant then returns north-eastwards to join the farmbuildings. This last section includes an arch-headed doorway. The house overlooks a field and a narrow strip of garden along the front and left end side is enclosed by original (that is to say mid C19) cast iron railings and the gate posts have acanthus leaf heads.
Listing NGR: SY0433198004
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86962
- 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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