Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1168832
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Helmore
- Statutory Address:
- HELMORE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1168832
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Helmore
- Statutory Address 1:
- HELMORE
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:
- HELMORE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cullompton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 00158 07387
Details
CULLOMPTON PONSFORD ST 00 NW 5/131 - Helmore - II Detached house, formerly a farmhouse. Late C16 or early C17. Random rubble sandstone and volcanic trap to rear (facing roadside), cob, stone footing, plastered, to front, under half-hipped and gabled-end roof. Formerly a 3-room, through-passage plan, the higher end to the left of the passage, the rear passage doorway blocked, with a lower end cross wing, probably added int eh C19. The lower end must also have been rebuilt (or indeed added anew) for there is a marked vertical masonry joint immediately to the right of the blocked passage door, with evidence of quoining. Another front wing has been added forward of the hall. Former end stack, now axial, heats lower end; an axial stack backing on to hall heated hall but is no longer visible externally. 2 storeys throughout. Front (ie facing garden): C20 casement windows throughout, of 2- or 3-lights, 3 to main range 1st floor, 2 to ground floor, one to each floor of wings, with a 4-light window to the inner face of lower end wing. Door to small lean-to between wings, another to extreme left-hand side. Rear (to roadside): C19 casement windows, 1st floor with 2 of 4-lights, one of 3-, ground floor with one of 3-lights, 2 of 4-, and one of 5-, 3 panes per light. Interior: parlour, now divided by C20 axial wall, but with intersecting beams, forming a grid of 4 squares, still visible, with a composite moulding comprising 2 cyma recta and one cavetto. Hall with 3 axial beams, chamfered; fireplace lintel chamfered with hollow step stops. Passage screen to hall side survives, plank and muntin, chamfered, carpenter's mitre, step stops; one chamfered doorway arch. Lower end with one deeply chamfered cross beam, fireplace with replaced lintel. Lower end cross wing with blocked fireplace; 2 rooms, that to the rear formerly a dairy. Roof: much altered, one truss crossed and morticed at apex, pegged; the rest look later; cross wing with C19 A-frame roof.
Listing NGR: ST0015807387
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95321
- 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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