Sellake Farmhouse
SELLAKE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1168935
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Sellake Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SELLAKE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1168935
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Sellake Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SELLAKE 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:
- SELLAKE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Halberton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 00239 14099
Details
HALBERTON ST 01 SW 2/174 - Sellake Farmhouse 5.4.66 - II*
Farmhouse. Circa 1600. Cob, stone plinth, plastered under gabled-end thatched roof. 3-room, through-passage plan with rear outshut under slated catslide roof. Higher end to left of passage; external left-hand end stack heats inner room; rear (formerly external) lateral stack heats hall; internal right-hand end stack with bake-oven bulge heats service end; all stacks with brick shafts, the lateral stack substantially of stone. 2-storeys. Front: 5-window range; all casement windows; first floor windows (except that to lower end) barred, C19, and under very shallow eyebrow eaves; 8-panes per light; inner room chamber of 5-lights, the others of 3. Ground floor with three 4-light barred casement windows; French windows to inner room; C19 panelled door to passage; another door to lower end (kitchen). Two 2-light windows to right hand end elevation, one C20 metal framed window to left; 2 and 5-light window to rear. Interior: deeply chamfered cross beam to lower end room; the fireplace lintel recently (February 1985) removed in part as a result of fire damage, is quite exceptionally large. Stud and panel screen (chamfered and with carpenter's mitres) to lower end of passage; hall with composite double ovolo and double cavetto intersecting beams forming a grid of 4 ceiling squares; inner room with intersecting beams that carry an unusual moulding of 2 rolls flanking a run of raised saltires or dogtooth ornaments; and forming a grid of 4 ceiling squares. Roof: 4 jointed crucks, apex morticed and pegged, diagonal ridge-piece; straight collars pegged and morticed; 2 pairs of trenched purlins. All are clean, although the left hand end truss has been charred by fire.
Listing NGR: ST0023914099
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95361
- 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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