Wellington Farmhouse
WELLINGTON FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163857
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Wellington Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WELLINGTON FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163857
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Wellington Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WELLINGTON 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:
- WELLINGTON FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Widworthy
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 21316 99949
Details
SY 29 NW OFFWELL WILMINGTON
4/122 Wellington Farmhouse (Reeds Farm - on O.S.) GV II Farmhouse. C16 and C17 origins, extensively refurbished in the early-mid C19. Plastered stone rubble with some cob; stone rubble stacks with plastered brick chimneyshafts; thatch roof. Plan and development: essentially an L-plan building. The main block faces south and is set back a short distance from the road. It had a 3-room-and-through-passage plan. At the right (east) end is an unheated service end room. The passage next to it now contains the main stair which blocks the back of the passage. The hall has a rear lateral stack and the inner room parlour breaks forward a short distance from the main front and has a former gable-end stack which now backs onto a service block. The first room of this service wing is on the same axis as the main block but set a little forward and, at the left (west) end, a cartshed set at right angles and projecting forward; it has now been converted to garages. The main block was thoroughly refurbished in the C19, a process which apparently involved a complete reroofing. Therefore there is not enough early fabric exposed to determine the early structural history of the house. Nevertheless it seems probably that it began as some kind of open hall house in the C16. There is too some evidence of an internal jetty at the upper end of the hall. House is 2 storeys. Exterior: overall irregular 1:1:2-window front of C19 and C20 replacement casements with glazing bars. The right 2-window section is symmetrical about the passage front doorway which contains a C19 part-glazed 6-panel door under a contemporary hood on shaped timber brackets. The main block roof is hipped to right and the cartshed roof is half-hipped. Interior: is mainly the result of C19 and C20 modernisations but a little early work is exposed. The inner room fireplace is late C16 - early C17; it is Beerstone ashlar with a chamfered oak lintel and has some C19 brick lining and a contemporary inserted oven. The hall has a similar fireplace and a probably early C17 crossbeam with broad chamfers. Otherwise no early features show although the early layout is preserved and therefore some features may be hidden. The roof was not inspected but is said to be C19 and C20.
Listing NGR: SY2131699949
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 88794
- 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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