Herdwick Farmhouse

HERDWICK FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1163399
Date first listed:
10-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
Herdwick Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
HERDWICK FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1163399
Date first listed:
10-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
Herdwick Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
HERDWICK 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
HERDWICK FARMHOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Devon
District:
Torridge (District Authority)
Parish:
Winkleigh
National Grid Reference:
SS 65236 08002

Details

WINKLEIGH SS 60 NE 10/130 Herdwick Farmhouse II Farmhouse. Early to mid C17 possibly with earlier origins. Rendered cob walls. Thatch roof gabled to left hipped to right end. Axial rubble stack with brick shaft. Rear lateral brick stack and brick shaft at left gable-end. Plan: 3-room-and-through-passage plan with lower end to the right. Hall stack backs onto passage, lower room heated by rear lateral stack, inner room fireplace probably inserted. Small C19 wing and outshuts added at rear. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 5-window front of 2 and 3-light early C20 casements with early C20 gabled porch to right of centre which has C20 plank door behind. Interior: hall has chamfered ceiling beam with hollow step stops. Axial beam in lower room has run-out stops. Probably C17 substantial principal rafters with trenched purlins.

Listing NGR: SS6523608002

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
90921
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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