Billacombe Farmhouse
BILLACOMBE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163470
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Billacombe Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BILLACOMBE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163470
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Billacombe Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BILLACOMBE 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:
- BILLACOMBE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kelly
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 42144 82305
Details
SX 48 SW KELLY
6/73 Billacombe Farmhouse - 15.4.78 GV II
Farmhouse. C17 with C19 alterations and C20 renovations. Stone rubble with asbestos slate roof gabled at ends. Stone chimneys at right gable end, gable end of wing and on ridge. Evidence of 2 or 3 room and through passage plan with front left projecting wing forming L-plan. The lower end appears to have been partly rebuilt, probably in the C19 when the axial stack may have been inserted into the former passage and the higher end was largely refenestrated . The lower end was used as a dairy and office at one time. The rear of the C17 house is now the front. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front with irregular fenestration. Straight joint indicates some rebuilding at lower end. Off centre late C20 gabled stone porch with timber ovolo-moulded doorway reused from C17 entrance at rear. To the left of the porch a 3-light casement, 8-panes per light, under a wider timber lintel which probably marks the rear door of the former through passage. Ground floor window right 3-light casement, 4-panes per light. 2 ground floor windows left, each a 2-light casement, 6-panes per light. First floor window left; 3-light casement, 6-panes per light: first floor window above porch; 3-light casement, 8-panes per light: first floor window right; 3-light casement 6-panes per light. 3-light C17 ovolo-moulded timber window on right return of front. The rear of the house, formerly the C17 front, has a 2-storey gabled porch retaining an ovolo moulded timber doorway in situ. Interior Exposed ceiling beams to ground floor right. Probably C19 fireplaces with brick lintels. Ground floor room right has fixed timber seat below window. Partly concealed timber ovolo-moulded C17 window to right of porch in former front wall indicates that the rebuilding of the lower end was only partial. Ovolo-moulded doorway into room above porch has step stops. Side pegged collar trusses of large scantling throughout, formerly with diagonally set ridge. Pegged truss over porch.
Listing NGR: SX4214482305
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 92319
- 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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