Lower Woodburn Farmhouse
LOWER WOODBURN FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169692
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Woodburn Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER WOODBURN FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169692
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Woodburn Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER WOODBURN 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:
- LOWER WOODBURN FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Oakford
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 86843 23114
Details
SS 82 SE OAKFORD
4/138 Lower Woodburn Farmhouse -
II
Farmhouse. Circa early/mid C17, probably a remodelling of an earlier house. Colourwashed rendered cob and stone rubble; slate roof, gabled at ends; end stack with brick shafts, axial stack with stone shaft. Plan: single depth 3 room plan, the right hand room with a lower roofline is probably a rebuilding of the former lower end and passage and served as a cider house with apple loft at one time. Present entrance at junction between right hand and centre rooms, facing the side of the axial chimney breast. 2 high quality early/mid C17 rooms to the left. Rear outshut with lean-to roof is probably a post C17 series of service rooms. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4 plus 3 window front with a gabled porch with rounded outer doorway to right of centre. The taller block to the left h as a mixture of small pane 2 and 3-light casement windows: some with iron frames and glazing bars, some with C18 square leaded panes. Interior: Good survival of high quality C17 carpentry and joinery. The left hand room has an open fireplace with timber lintel, a deeply-chamfered intersecting beamed ceiling with exposed joists, a fine plank and mumtin screen with original doorframe intact, chamfered muntins with scroll stops and a chamfered doorframe in the rear wall, possibly formerly leading to a stair turret. The centre room has an open fireplace with a timber lintel, ashlar jambs and a bread oven. Both left hand ground floor rooms have lime ash floors. Other joinery of interest includes several good C17 or C18 plank doors probably C18. Roof: Large apex pegged trusses with nailed collars over 2 left hand rooms, modern roof over lower end. 2 re-used timbers appear to be slightly smoke-blackened. A very unspoiled traditional house.
Listing NGR: SS8684323114
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 96784
- 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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