Sherford Down Farmhouse
SHERFORD DOWN FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169182
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Sherford Down Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SHERFORD DOWN FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169182
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Sherford Down Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHERFORD DOWN 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:
- SHERFORD DOWN FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Frogmore and Sherford
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 76936 44376
Details
SHERFORD SX 74 SE 6/72 Sherford Down Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. 1820-30. Slatestone rubble wells. Double depth shallow pitched hipped slate roof. Rendered brick stack at each end and brick stack to rear service range. Plan: double depth plan 2 rooms wide but not quite symmetrical. The 2 principal rooms are at the front and rear on the left-hand side and interconnecting. The front room opens out of the entrance hall at the other side of which is a smaller room at the front. Behind this runs a narrow staircase at the side of the hall. A passage extends from the rear of the hall to a back door and it has a kitchen to its right. A probably contemporary service wing extends to the rear of the house at the right-hand end with dairy, pantry, etc. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3 window front of original 16-pane sash windows taller on the ground floor and with brick surrounds. Central Doric porch with fluted columns and deep flat hood. The sides of the porch have been glazed in and it has a glazed door with panelled door behind. Service range is set back from right-hand end of front with flimsy C20 addition at the front of it. Rear elevation of main range similar to front but with central 6-panel door. The service wing projects from the left-hand end also with 16-pane sashes and a large late C19 leanto built onto the end of it. Interior: has fairly complete joinery including panelled doors and shutters, built-in settle and cupboard in the kitchen and very simple staircase. The 2 principal rooms have simple moulded cornices and the smaller front room has a moulded ceiling band. The entrance hall has a modillion cornice with superimposed trailing vine motif. Marble chimneypiece in front left-hand room. This is a very unaltered example of a Regency farmhouse.
Listing NGR: SX7693644376
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 100769
- 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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