Road Down Farmhouse
ROAD DOWN FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171127
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Road Down Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ROAD DOWN FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171127
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Road Down Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROAD DOWN 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:
- ROAD DOWN 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 74624 96919
Details
COLEBROOKE SX 79 NW 4/82 Road Down Farmhouse - - II
Farmhouse, formerly 2 cottages. Late C17. Plastered cob on rubble footings; stone rubble or cob stack topped with C20 brick; interlocking red tile roof (formerly thatch). Originally a pair of contemporary 1-room plan cottages facing south and separated by axial stack serving back-to-back fireplaces. Small C19 store on right (east) end. 2 storeys. Originally symmetrical 2-window front with doorways each end. Now C19 plank door behind C20 monopitch and corrugated asbestos roofed porch at left end but right end door now blocked by C20 casement with glazing bars. The other windows are oak-framed casements with glazing bars and may be original. The ground floor windows have internal iron glazing hars of circular section. Gable- ended roof with deep eaves on a series of timber brackets. Rear wall is blind. On right end is a small agricultural store with cob rear wall, framed front and leanto roof. Interior: both rooms have original crossbeams, soffit-chamfered with straight cut stops. Original fireplaces are blocked. Roof not inspected but its low pitch suggests that original replaced in C19.
Listing NGR: SX7462496919
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 96598
- 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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