Lower Wotton Farmhouse
LOWER WOTTON FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171060
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Wotton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER WOTTON FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171060
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Wotton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER WOTTON 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 WOTTON FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Colebrooke
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 76220 98103
Details
COLEBROOKE SX 79 NE 5/76 Lower Wotton Farmhouse - GV II
Farmhouse. Late C17 with C19 alterations and extension. Plastered cob on rubble footings; stone rubble or cob stacks with plastered brick chimney shafts; thatch roof. Main block faces south-east with rear blocks pojecting at right angles from each end, that to right (north-east) added in C19 as an agricultural store. Originally front block had 3-room plan and central room heated by rear lateral stack. In C19 front: lateral stack inserted to small left end room and in C20 central and left room knocked together. Left (south-west) rear block is original kitchen block with end stack and stairs are C19 replacement of originals. 2 storeys. Balanced 2-window front with C20 casement with glazing bars on ground floor and C19 casements with glazing bars on first floor. C20 plank door with contemporary gabled and thatch-roofed porch to right. Roof is hipped each end. Kitchen wing has slightly lower roof, is gable-ended, and includes a half dormer casement window. C19 addition also gable-ended and includes original unglazed windows with internal shutters. The end wall has ground floor door and external stops to first floor loading hatch. Interior : early features are mostly hidden by C19 and C20 plaster. However main front room has original plain chartered cross and oak lintel of fireplace is exposed with soffit chamfer and worn but apparently stepped lozenge stops. To left part of original framed partition is exposed and includes a late C17. C17-early C18 bead-moulded doorframe. In kitchen the cross-beam is boxed in and large rubble fireplace with plain oak lintel has been much rebuilt. Roof of main block inaccessible and only feet of one principal exposed in kitchen wing. It is lap- jointed onto a post originally buried in the cob wall. C19 agricultural wing has king post truss roof.
Listing NGR: SX7622098103
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 96589
- 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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