DYMOND'S FARMHOUSE

DYMOND'S FARMHOUSE, BISHOP'S COURT LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1164530
Date first listed:: 18-Nov-1976
List Entry Name:: DYMOND'S FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: DYMOND'S FARMHOUSE, BISHOP'S COURT LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1164530
Date first listed:: 18-Nov-1976
List Entry Name:: DYMOND'S FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: DYMOND'S FARMHOUSE, BISHOP'S COURT LANE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: DYMOND'S FARMHOUSE, BISHOP'S COURT LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Sowton
National Grid Reference:: SX 98629 92645

Details

SOWTON BISHOP'S COURT LANE SX 99 SE 1/36 Dymond's Farmhouse - 18.11.76 - II

Farmhouse. Built 1676, probably for Richard Bevis, the son of the then owner of Bishop's Court. Mainly roughcast cob on stone footings, with a brick service end extension. Hipped thatched roof. Four-room house in a straight block; the main entrance leads into the hall with inner room to the left of the hall, and a kitchen and another service room to the right; there is no indication of an original passage. The hall ceiling extends over the present passage, which might have been divided from it by a low screen. The service end was extended, or a fifth room rebuilt, in brick in the C19, with a barn to the rear. Hall heated by a shallow external rear lateral stack; inner room with an internal end fireplace (shaft dismantled); kitchen heated by a prominent external lateral rear stack. Main stairs now between hall and inner room; secondary stairs to rear of service room. 2 storeys. Front: irregular 5-window range; the eaves line runs at a higher level over the hall and inner room; first floor windows to these chambers are tall C19 2-light casements under pronounced brick window arches; kitchen and service-room chambers with 2 and 4-light casement windows, mid C19, both under eyebrow eaves; brick extension with small 2-light casement window. Ground floor: 2-light C19 casement windows under pronounced window arches to inner room, hall and kitchen; service room with 3-light: C17 stone window with ovolo moulded surround and mullions, the outer lights blocked. 3 doors, that to the left with slated canopy. The main door, leading into the hall, has a datestone 'RB 1676' with pretty foliage and floral decoration, set above it. Rear: the hall chamber extends beyond the line of the rear wall and is separately gabled, and supported by brick piers (possibly replacing wooden posts), now engulfed in later leantos that extend along the whole length of the house. 2 C17 windows, both of 2 lights with ovolo moulded stone surrounds and mullion, one (entirely blocked) to service room, the other to the chamber above kitchen. Right- hand elevation with 2 brick buttresses. Interior: as described by Dr Alcock; hall ceiling divided by ceiling beam, each compartment with central plaster rose and corner florets; service end with 2 ceiling beams, one with run-out stops. Rough stud and panel screen between service room and rear stairs. Rear barn with straight principals to roof, crossed, morticed and pegged at apex, the collars bolted. The farmhouse has remained almost completely unchanged since Dr Alcock's visit, N W Alcock, 'Houses in an East Devon Parish', Trans.Devon Assoc., 94 (1962), p.221, p1.19, 20, 21; figs.15, 18.

Listing NGR: SX9862992645

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Legacy System number:: 86171
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Transactions of the Devonshire Association' in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, , Vol. 94, (1962)
'Transactions of the Devonshire Association' in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, , Vol. 94, (1962), 221

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.