Brendon Farmhouse and Adjoining Farmbuilding

BRENDON FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING FARMBUILDING

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1165059
Date first listed:
21-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:
Brendon Farmhouse and Adjoining Farmbuilding
Statutory Address:
BRENDON FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING FARMBUILDING

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1165059
Date first listed:
21-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:
Brendon Farmhouse and Adjoining Farmbuilding
Statutory Address 1:
BRENDON FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING FARMBUILDING

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BRENDON FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING FARMBUILDING

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

County:
Devon
District:
Torridge (District Authority)
Parish:
Halwill
National Grid Reference:
SX 42502 99892

Details

HALWILL SX 49 NW 4/64 Brendon Farmhouse and adjoining - Farmbuilding II Farmhouse. C17 or earlier origins. Cob on stone rubble footings, whitewashed and rendered to the front, asbestos slate roof gabled at ends, formerly thatched, rendered axial stack heating hall, projecting right end stack with stone shaft. 3 room and passage plan, the lower end a farmbuilding with loft over, the hall stack backing on to the passage and the inner room heated. The rear outshut and front hall projection are probably C18 additions. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front with a C20 front door to the passage on the left, and the hall projection gabled to the front in the centre. Fenestration of 2- and 3-light C20 casements with glazing bars. The farmbuilding adjoining at the left end has a doorway on the front below a loft entrance. Interior The hall has C17 chamfered stopped ceiling beams and a C17 fireplace with granite jambs and a timber lintel supported on projecting corbels with rounded profiles. A doorway to the left of the fireplace leads into a C17 or C18 stair. Roofspace not inspected but may be of interest.

Listing NGR: SX4250299892

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
90766
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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