WOODHOUSE FARMHOUSE INCLUDING GARDEN WALL, RAILINGS AND GATE IN FRONT OF HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1170649
Date first listed:: 19-Feb-1990
List Entry Name:: WOODHOUSE FARMHOUSE INCLUDING GARDEN WALL, RAILINGS AND GATE IN FRONT OF HOUSE
Statutory Address:: WOODHOUSE FARMHOUSE INCLUDING GARDEN WALL, RAILINGS AND GATE IN FRONT OF HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1170649
Date first listed:: 19-Feb-1990
List Entry Name:: WOODHOUSE FARMHOUSE INCLUDING GARDEN WALL, RAILINGS AND GATE IN FRONT OF HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: WOODHOUSE FARMHOUSE INCLUDING GARDEN WALL, RAILINGS AND GATE IN FRONT OF HOUSE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: WOODHOUSE FARMHOUSE INCLUDING GARDEN WALL, RAILINGS AND GATE IN FRONT OF HOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: South Hams (District Authority)
Parish:: West Alvington
National Grid Reference:: SX 72899 43503

Details

WEST ALVINGTON SX 74 SW 5/199 Woodhouse Farmhouse including garden wall, railings and gate in front of house

G. V. II

Farmhouse. Mid C19 with C20 addition. Slate stone rubble walls. Hipped slate roof with wide overhanging eaves. Axial brick stack and one at end of rear wing. Plan: L-shaped plan. Main range has entrance hall to left of centre with staircase and 2 principal rooms to its right, dairy to its left with pantry behind and kitchen in wing to their rear. At the right-hand end of the house a granary has been converted. At the rear of the house a C20 extension has been built on. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4 window front of original 30 pane hornless sashes with cambered brick arches over. To left of centre is original 6 panel door under slate pentice supported on 2 slender wooden columns and reached by stone steps. Former granary at right-hand end is lower and has a 30-pane sash over a blocked doorway. Stone steps up to first floor on its end wall. At the front of the house is a low garden wall surmounted by iron railings with fleur-de-lys finials, and matching gate. Interior fairly complete original joinery consists of panelled shutters and doors and staircase with column newels and stick balusters. This is an unaltered example of a modest early Victorian farmhouse.

Listing NGR: SX7289943503

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 100896
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.