Borcombe Farmhouse including front garden walls
Borcombe Farmhouse including front garden walls
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163876
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Borcombe Farmhouse including front garden walls
- Statutory Address:
- Borcombe Farmhouse including front garden walls
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163876
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Borcombe Farmhouse including front garden walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- Borcombe Farmhouse including front garden walls
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:
- Borcombe Farmhouse including front garden walls
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Southleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 19459 91437
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18 October 2022 to correct a typo in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
SY 19 SE
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SOUTHLEIGH
Borcombe Farmhouse including front garden walls
GV
II
Farmhouse. Circa 1850. Local stone and flint rubble with Beerstone ashlar dressings; stone rubble stacks with original chimneyshafts with Beerstone ashlar quoins and projecting coping; slate roof.
Plan: the farmhouse faces south-east and is built down a gentle hillslope. It has a double depth plan with front and back room either side of the central entrance hall and staircases. The principal rooms are those at the front, the service rooms those to rear. There are gable-end stacks each end; that to right (north-east) is larger and projects from the right end on the same axis as the main house which is two storeys. Restrained Tudor Gothic style.
Exterior: the farmhouse has a not quite symmetrical three-window front of C19 casement with glazing bars under Tudor-style hoodmoulds. The front doorway is a little left of centre and it contains a C19 four-panel door with overlight and hoodmould. The roof is gable-ended. The dairy front has three windows and a doorway similar to those on the main house and all with hoodmoulds. It too is gable-ended and there is a small gabled bellcote on the ridge. There are some round-headed windows with ashlar voussoirs to rear.
Interior: not inspected but is thought to contain original joinery and other detail.
The front garden is enclosed by a stone rubble wall. The front gate piers art square in section with Beerstone ashlar quoins, moulded capitals and ball finials. Borcombe Farmhouse with its contemporary barn (q.v) and Cow House (q.v) form a good farm group in an attractive setting.
Listing NGR: SY1945991437
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 88796
- 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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