Dowhills Farmhouse
DOWHILLS FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1168636
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Dowhills Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- DOWHILLS FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1168636
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Dowhills Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOWHILLS 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:
- DOWHILLS FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bampton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 99536 21820
Details
SS 92 SE BAMPTON
6/10 Dowhills Farmhouse -
II
Farmhouse. Circa early C18 with some C19 alterations but possibly a remodelling of an earlier house. Stone rubble with a slate roof, gabled at ends; right end stack, 2 rear lateral stacks. Plan: Single depth main range, 3 rooms wide with an entrance into a passage containing the stair to right of centre. A fourth room at the left end is in use as a store. The plan form suggests a house of pre 1700 but visible details are C18 or C19. Rear lean-tos are probably C18 or C19 additions. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 8 window front with regular fenestration and a remarkable pronounced curve on the front elevation to left of centre. C19 gabled rustic porch of split logs to right of centre, additional doorways into right hand room and into store room at left end. Louvred opening first floor left, adjacent window a sash, other fenestration of probably C20 casement windows with glazing bars. Interior: Large open fireplace at right end with bread oven, lintel replaced and evidence of rebuilding of jambs; right hand room has deeply-chamfered cross beam with runout stops. The other fireplaces are plain but earlier jambs and lintels may survive, plain cross beams to 2 rooms to left of entrance, 1 diagonally positioned in accordance with the curved front wall. Brick partition wall to left of stair is probably C19. Some C18 joinery to the first floor. Alterations, including reslating, in progress at time of survey (1986). On a prominent corner site.
Listing NGR: SS9953621820
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 96654
- 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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