Lower Sheepsbyre
LOWER SHEEPSBYRE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166052
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Sheepsbyre
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER SHEEPSBYRE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166052
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Sheepsbyre
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER SHEEPSBYRE
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:
- LOWER SHEEPSBYRE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chulmleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 72819 15797
Details
CHULMLEIGH SS 71 NW 4/21 Lower Sheepsbyre GV II
Farmhouse. Early to mid C17 but possibly earlier fabric concealed, with C19 alterations. Rendered stone rubble and some cob towards right end. Hipped thatch roof. Brick stack at left end and tall rendered shaft to rear lateral hall stack with offsets and bread oven projection. Plan: 3-room and cross-passage plan with lower end to left and staircase filling the passage, running from back to front. The inner room end has been divided axially into 2 rooms with dairy at front and former pumphouse at rear; it appears always to have been unheated. The parlour may always therefore have been at the left, lower end. Outshut to rear right end. Exterior: 2 storeys. 4-window range. C20 fenestration, all 3-light casements. Ground floor inner room end is blind. Plank door the 2 upper panels glazed to through-passage doorway. 3-light casement to upper storey at right end with rectangular leaded lights. Interior: hall has 2 cross ceiling beams with rich roll-hollow-ogee mouldings. Hall fireplace has C19 lintel concealing original, with bread oven on left side and seat recess on right side. Thin partitions to each side of passage and at upper end of hall. The original c17 plank and muntin screen at the upper end of the hall has been reused as the axial partition dividing the inner room end, with 1 section 4 planks wide and another 2 planks wide, the latter incorporating a low doorway, now blocked. The muntins and doorway are ovolo moulded on the dairy side, stopped about ½ metre from the sill, with peg-holes suggesting a former integral hall bench, with straight chamfers on the pump-house side. C19 staircase and joinery largely intact. Wood quality early C19 roof structure with 6 King post trusses, the king posts dovetailed into the tie beams and apexes, with raking struts no sign of smoke-blackening. Lower and Higher Sheepsbyre (q.v.) are an interesting pair of closely situated early farmhouses, both south facing and with adjacent front farm courtyards, both of which retain relatively unspoilt ranges of farm buildings.
Listing NGR: SS7281915797
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 97199
- 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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