Mountshayne Farmhouse
MOUNTSHAYNE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169355
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Mountshayne Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MOUNTSHAYNE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169355
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Mountshayne Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOUNTSHAYNE 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:
- MOUNTSHAYNE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hemyock
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 13931 12677
Details
ST 11 SW HEMYOCK 5/42 Mountshayne Farmhouse - - II Farmhouse. Circa mid-C17 remodelled in late C19. Flint with rendered south front. Slate roof with gabled ends. C19 redbrick ridge and gable end chimney stacks. A 3-room and through passage plan house. The lower status end to the right at higher ground level. The lower end has the gable end stack and the hall is heated from the stack backing onto the passage. The passage front south doorway has been blocked. The partition on the lower right side removed and another partition inserted across the lower room to form a small kitchen at the right end. In the late C19 remodelling the higher right gable end of the house became the entrance front and this end room was partitioned to form a stair hall and a front parlour which is heated from a fireplace in the corner. 2 storeys. South front has an asymmetrical 4-window range of late C19 and C20 casements and sashes. The former passage doorway on this front, to right of centre, has been blocked. On the first floor right eight trefoil shaped pigeon-holes in shaped bricks with tile surrounds and flight ledges. Late C19. The lower left west gable end has late C19 shaped and pierced barge boards. A late C19 canted bay window and a doorway to left with a segmental headed fan-light. Late C19 outshut on the north which was originally the back, and one circa early C19 2-light first floor casement window with leaded panes. Interior: kitchen fireplace in lower right hand room has large chamfered timber lintel with hollow, slightly stepped stops. Former hall has chamfered cross-beam with long hollow stops with slight step. The hall fireplace is blocked but is said to have large timber lintel. Roof. 4 trusses over hall and higher left end have straight principals with halved and lapped apices. 2 tiers of butt purlins and no ridge piece. The roof over the lower right end has later softwood trusses with lapped collars.
Listing NGR: ST1393112677
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95698
- 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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