Whites Farmhouse
WHITES FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164606
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Whites Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WHITES FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164606
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Whites Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITES 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:
- WHITES FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashwater
- National Grid Reference:
- SX4144499405
Details
ASHWATER LANGAFORD
SW 49 NW
4/22 Whites Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse. C17 core, C18 and C19 alterations. Whitewashed rendered cob on stone
rubble footings, slate roof gabled at ends, projecting stack at left end, 2 axial
stack.
Plan: the original plan was probably 3 room and through or cross passage with the
hall stack backing on to the passage. A gabled projection to the front of the hall
may have contained the stair or served as a projecting bay for the hall window.
Service rooms in a single-storey cob lean-to at the rear are probably an C18
addition. The house has been remodelled and extended on either side of the hall.
The present entrance, to the right of the hall stack leads directly into a stair hall
and the lower end consists of 1 heated room and a small unheated storage room
originally with separate access from outside. At the inner end of the hall there are
now 2 rooms, a former pantry immediately to the left of the hall and a heated parlour
at the left end of the range accessible via a passage to the rear of the pantry. The
eaves have been raised and the thatched roof replaced with asbestos slates. 2
storeys. Long asymmetrical 5-window front with a small gabled projection to the
front approximately in the centre and a C20 single-storey glazed lean-to on the front
at the right, front door immediately to the right of the central axial stack and
probably in the position of the former through passage doorway. Late C19
fenestration of 2- and 3-light casements with glazing bars.
Interior The hall fireplace has been partly blocked in the early C20, earlier jambs
and lintel said to be concealed behind, ceiling beams plastered over china cupboards
to both hall and parlour. Late C19 stair with turned balusters, modern roof trusses.
Whites is one of 3 farms sited in a hamlet which is similar to a Cornish townsplace.
Listing NGR: SX4144499405
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 90724
- 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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