Leigh Hill Farmhouse
LEIGH HILL FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1170093
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Leigh Hill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LEIGH HILL FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1170093
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Leigh Hill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEIGH HILL 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:
- LEIGH HILL FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Uffculme
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 10275 10943
Details
ST 11 SW UFFCULME 5/134 Leigh Hill Farmhouse - II Detached house, formerly a farmhouse. C17. Roughcast cob and stone mix; gable end roof. A 3-room through-passage plan house, the service end to the right of the passage. It is a simple 3-cell structure, the service room divided from the passage, and the inner room from the hall, by closed jointed cruck trusses. Internal end stack heats service end, axial stack backing on to passage heats hall; external end stack heats inner room. The latter is built of exceptionally large bricks. Hall stack dated 'S.P.' 1765. Wider stairs in slight stair-bulge, to rear of hall, and in a line with the hall stack. 2 storeys. Exterior Front: 4 window range; first floor with 2-light casements window, 2 of them of the 1980s. Ground floor: inner room with French window; C20 casement windows to hall and service end. Glazed door to passage. Large buttress against hall wall. Rear: 2 old 3-light casement windows, one to stair bulge. Otherwise C19 and late C20 fenestration. Interior: a good set of C17 fittings. Service end fireplace with massive chamfered lintel, and above it a cross ceiling beam, chamfered with scroll stops that does not extend the entire width of the house, suggesting that there may have been another newel stair at this end. Boxed cross ceiling beam in addition. Hall fireplace deep, but blocked. The stairs are intact; polygonal newel post, splat balusters, with an extra rail to the landing where the upper rail is ramped. Door to the stairs with fielded panels and HL hinges. Understairs cupboard, planked with H hinges. Another understairs cupboard door accessible from passage, with HL hinges, set into a contemporary length of screenwork. Hall cross ceiling-beam, chamfered with step stops. Plank and muntin screen between hall and inner room, traditional form but shallow chamfers to muntins and vestigial carpenter's mitres, and stopped for bench (about 2½' above the floor level). Unchamfered to inner room side. Inner room with chamfered and unstopped cross ceiling beam; fireplace rebuilt. 2 jointed crucks, side pegged. Roof space inaccessible.
Listing NGR: ST1027510943
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95789
- 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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