Westown Farmhouse
WESTOWN FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169612
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Westown Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WESTOWN FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169612
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Westown Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WESTOWN 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:
- WESTOWN 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 11927 13461
Details
ST 11 SW HEMYOCK WESTOWN 5/66 Westown Farmhouse - - II Farmhouse. Mid C16; one of the two rear wings is C17; later alterations. Random rubble flint; gable end slate roof. Plan: originally a 4-room, through-passage plan house, the hall and inner room to the left of the passage, with a contemporary wing to the rear; the service end is divided into 2 rooms by a fireplace which looks modern but has a stone stack and shaft; the extreme right-hand room (unheated) has a blocked drain which suggests the possibility of its having once been a shippon (see Commander Williams' report cited below). A C17 wing is placed to the rear of the lower end, with a large end fireplace, and probably served as a kitchen. Hall is heated by a stone axial stack backing onto the passage; early wing heated by an internal lateral stack (to the inner face). The house appears always to have been of 2 storeys. Exterior: Front: 4-window range; first floor with C19 2 and 3-light casement windows, one with stanchions; ground floor : plain, chamfered, 4-centred stone arch to passage. Casement and sash windows. Buttressing. Right-hand elevation : a projection under a catslide close to the junction of wing and main range could be a former newel stair turret. Otherwise C19 and C20 casement windows. Left-wing end elevation concealed by adjacent linhay (q.v.) Rear: the C17 wing has no windows to end elevation or inner face; French window and casement windows to earlier wing. Between the 2 wings are some later additions and a pointed stone doorway arch (originally opposing that to the front) has been re-set. Interior: hall and inner room divided by a plank and muntin screen of which only a fragment survives; a partition above it rises through the first floor. Uncovered since Commander Williams' visit (1982) is a doorway from the hall into the rear wing, chamfered with cranked lintels, morticed into heavy studs that act as jambs. Roof with 6 trusses with straight principals; the roof was not inspected but is described in great detail in Commander E H D Williams' report in NMR, (1982), and more briefly in Period Home, Vol. 5, no. 6 (July 1984), pp. 59-60.
Listing NGR: ST1192713461
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95723
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Period Home in July, Vol. 5, (1984), 59-60
Williams, E H D, Report of the Somerset Vernacular Architecture Group in Report of the Somerset Vernacular Architecture Group, ()
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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