Venn's Farmhouse and Adjoining Farmbuildings to South-west
VENN'S FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING FARMBUILDINGS TO SOUTH-WEST, SOWTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164779
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Venn's Farmhouse and Adjoining Farmbuildings to South-west
- Statutory Address:
- VENN'S FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING FARMBUILDINGS TO SOUTH-WEST, SOWTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164779
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Venn's Farmhouse and Adjoining Farmbuildings to South-west
- Statutory Address 1:
- VENN'S FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING FARMBUILDINGS TO SOUTH-WEST, SOWTON LANE
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:
- VENN'S FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING FARMBUILDINGS TO SOUTH-WEST, SOWTON 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 97795 92764
Details
SOWTON SOWTON LANE (east side) SX 99 SE 1/48 Venn's Farmhouse and adjoining - farmbuildings to south-west
- II
Farmhouse with adjoining barn and farm building range. Probably C17 with C18 and C19 alterations and additions. Roughcast cob, except to the front wall which is of brick; gabled end thatched roof. The farm buildings are of unrendered cob on stone footings, with hipped thatched roof, and gabled-end slate roof. House was originally a 3-room plan house, possibly with a cross passage (there is no door opposing that to the front) with the hall and inner room to the right, and the service end to the left; a late-C18 wing extends to the rear of the service end; there is structural evidence that it replaces an earlier rear room, and this is confirmed by its odd alignment at an oblique angle to the house. Service room heated by an internal end stack, the hall by an external rear lateral stack. The inner room is unheated, and the rear wing has an internal fireplace with bake oven set in one of the rear corners. All stacks with brick shafts. 2 storeys. Front: C19 brick refacing; regular 5-window range; first floor with C19 3-light casement windows, lintels at eaves level; leanto tiled canopy to doorway, with one 3-light casement window to the left, 3 to the right, all with segmental window arches. A brick, thatched leanto abuts the left hand end, with a small 2-light casement window in the gable wall. The farm buildings stand forward of the house, and extend to the right of the farmhouse along Sowton Lane; tall cob barn stands end-on to the road, with 1 small ground floor opening only : attached to this is a lower cob barn, with wagon entrance to the farmstead to the left all under continuous slate roof. N W Alcock, 'Houses in an East Devon Parish', Trans. Devon Assoc, 94 (1962) pp. 207-8, fig.14.
Listing NGR: SX9779592764
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86184
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions of the Devonshire Association in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, Vol. 94, (1962), 207-8
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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