Great Westacott Farmhouse Including Attached Shippon With Loft Over
GREAT WESTACOTT FARMHOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED SHIPPON WITH LOFT OVER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163978
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Great Westacott Farmhouse Including Attached Shippon With Loft Over
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT WESTACOTT FARMHOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED SHIPPON WITH LOFT OVER
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163978
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Great Westacott Farmhouse Including Attached Shippon With Loft Over
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREAT WESTACOTT FARMHOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED SHIPPON WITH LOFT OVER
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:
- GREAT WESTACOTT FARMHOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED SHIPPON WITH LOFT OVER
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:
- SS5818427939
Details
SS 52 NE
10/9
BISHOPS TAWTON
Great Westacott Farmhouse including attached Shippon with loft over
II
Farmhouse with attached shippon with loft over. Farmhouse late C15 or early C16
remodelled in C17 when shippon was added. C19 alterations. Whitewashed rendered
stone rubble and cob. Slate roof to farmhouse, tiled roof to shippon. Farmhouse
has through-passage plan, formerly an open hall house. Lower end is divided into 2
rooms, 1 to rear is heated, dairy to front extending into shippon and loft
projection at right angles to front of main range forming overall L-shaped plan.
Tall rubble stack at right end of farmhouse with drip, offsets and projecting bread
oven : stack set slightly off the ridge at left end with drip and slated
weatherings and tapered cap. 2 storeys with single storied right-angled extension
to rear : 3-window range of C19 to C20 fenestration. Two 2-light casements to left
and a 3-light casement to right, all 3 panes per light. 4-light casement window to
hall to right of 6-panelled door, the upper 2 panels glazed with small square
window to dairy to left. Shippon with loft over has doors to both storeys in same
opening with 2-light window to right with iron stanchions and another square window
opening to dairy inserted in former blocked doorway.
Interior C17 rear through-passage doorway with old plank door. Run out stops to
chamfered beam to heated lower end room with C18 joinery to integral wall cupboard.
C17 doorway to dairy with scroll-stopped chamfered durns. Stairs repositioned at
lower end of hall formerly in stair turret projection to rear of hall. Run-out
stops to chamfered hall beam and cyma recta moulding to the exposed arris of the
jetty at lower end of hall. Positioned over this jetty is a closed raised cruck
truss with collar tenoned into mortices to the soffits of the blades and carrying 2
tiers of threaded purlins and diagonally set ridge purlin. Smoke-blackening to
both sides of the truss but not to the lower side of the lath and plaster partition
indicates that the lower end was formerly open to the roof although the remainder
of the roof structure over this end has been replaced in C20. This end was floored
over first, jettying into the hall which remained open to the roof possibly into
the C18. The shippon contains 2 stop-chamfered beams and has 2 C17 roof trusses
with straight principals carrying 2 tiers of threaded purlins and ridge purlin with
mortices for removed collars.
Listing NGR: SS5818427939
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 98487
- 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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