Lake Farmhouse
LAKE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171577
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lake Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LAKE FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171577
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lake Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LAKE 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:
- LAKE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Walkhampton
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 53179 68318
Details
WALKHAMPTON SX 57 SW 13/135 Lake Farmhouse - - II
Farmhouse. Circa early-mid C17 with C19 and C20 additions. Rendered rubble walls. Gable ended slate roof. Axial brick stack. Plan: Originally appears to have had 2-room plan with central passage. Hall/kitchen to left of passage heated by an axial stack with winder stairs in a projection at the front and adjoining window bay. To the right of the passage is a small unheated service room. The house was considerably extended at the rear in the C19 and earlier C20. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2-window front, the left-hand side of the house projects. The 2 left-hand windows are later C19 4 pane sashes, above the ground floor one is a granite hoodmould. At an intermediate level to the right is a C20 single light casement to the stairs. Immediately to the right of the projection is the original granite 4-centred chamfered granite doorway with C20 plank door. This is underneath an open-fronted porch, its roof supported on a stone corbel to the left and a side wall to the right. To the right is an original hollow chamfered granite framed light. At left-hand end is single storey C19 wash-house. Later C19 and early C20 L-shaped addition at rear. Interior: A 4-centred arched chamfered granite doorway leads from the passage into the left-hand room. In the room are heavy chamfered cross-beams. The wooden winder stairs survive at the front of the room. The large granite-framed fireplace has had a C20 fireplace inserted into it but has not been removed. Despite later additions the interesting original plan of the C17 house survives with a number of its features preserved.
Listing NGR: SX5317968318
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 92866
- 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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