Emmett Farmhouse
EMMETT FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163929
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Emmett Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- EMMETT FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163929
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Emmett Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- EMMETT 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:
- EMMETT FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishop's Tawton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS6051925670
Details
SS 62 NW
11/6
BISHOPS TAWTON
Emmett Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Probably C16 with C17 remodelling, upper end rebuilt and extended in
1923 following fire. Colourwashed rendered rubble and cob. Slate roof with brick
ridge stack, thatched roof to right end with brick stack with lipped cap and
lateral hall stack to front with offsets, tapered cap, heightened in brick.
Projecting bread oven with slate canopy to its left. Hall and inner room survive
with rebuilding and extension of lower end to left of cross-passage. 2 storeys. 5
window range. C20 fenestration to left of hall stack, C19 2-light casement, 6 panes
per light and 9 panes per light above tall C19 2-light window with 4-paned window
inserted below and 2-light window to right, 12 panes per light. 4 panelled door
with overlight. C19 2-light window 2 panes per light above rubble lean-to to rear
of thatched portion with part slate, part corrugated asbestos roof.
Interior: there is no access to roof space but the elaborately moulded beams to the
hall with large bar stops raise the ceiling height above the plastered downstand
construction incorporating moulded scroll-stepped bressumer at lower end suggesting
possibility of jettied lower end to former open hall.
Listing NGR: SS6051925670
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 98484
- 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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