Higher Pool Farmhouse
HIGHER POOL FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163358
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Pool Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER POOL FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163358
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Pool Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER POOL 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:
- HIGHER POOL FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- East Allington
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 77409 49429
Details
EAST ALLINGTON SX74NE 4/43 Higher Pool Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Circa early C17, extended probably in C18 local slate rubble. Asbestos slate roof with hipped ends and gable-ended wing. Stone rubble rear lateral stack with tall red brick shaft and stack on side of front wing also with brick shaft. Plan and development: The original circa early C17 home was probably a 3- room and through or cross passage plan, the lower left hand end of which has been demolished. There is an integral 2-storey porch to the front of the former passage. The hall has a lateral stack at the back but it is uncertain whether the parlour at the right end was heated. The 1-room plan wing at the front of the right hand end was probably built in the C18. A dairy and staircase were inserted into the back of the passage at the left hand end possibly when the lower left end was demolished. The staircase was moved to the rear of the parlour in C20 and the house accommodation extended into an outbuilding at the right hand end. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window south east front with projecting gable-ended wing to right and projecting 2-storey porch to left. The porch has chamfered dressed slate round arch and the first floor is corbelled out above a moulded string. late Cl9 or C20 glazed doors. C19 3 and 4-light casements with glazing bars, the centre windows to the hall and hall chamber are 4-lights. The right hand window in the gable end of the wing are C20. The gable end of the wing is said to have been rebuilt. Large C20 conservatory on front of porch. At the rear a large lateral stack with a tall red brick shaft. The left hand lower end has been truncated. The right hand end is now linked to an outbuilding by a later addition and the outbuilding is now part of the house accommodation. Interior: Only the ground floor was inspected. Much altered in C19 and C20. The right hand room has large chamfered cross-beams plastered over. The passageway was blocked when the dairy was formed. The hall fireplace has a C20 brick chimneypiece, The roof structure is said to have been largely replaced but the pegged principals remain according to the owner. The owner reported that a lintel (now concealed) over the hall front window has a date 1640 curved onto it.
Listing NGR: SX7740949429
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 99832
- 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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