Croft Farmhouse
CROFT FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171664
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Croft Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CROFT FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171664
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Croft Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CROFT 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:
- CROFT FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Spreyton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 71201 95863
Details
SX 79 NW SPREYTON
2/256 Croft Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Of or earlier. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble or cob stacks, one with its original granite ashlar chimneyshaft; corrugated asbestos roof, formerly thatch. Plan: evidently this was originally a 3-room-and-through-passage plan farmhouse facing south-south-east, say south, but the service end room has been demolished. The inner room at the right (west) end has a gable-end stack and the hall has an axial stack backing onto the passage which is now at the left end of the house. Since no internal inspection was available at the time of this survey the early development of the house cannot be outlined here. Nevertheless it seems likely that it began as some form of open hall house, maybe heated by an open hearth fire. By the late C17 the fireplaces would have been inserted and the rooms floored over. Now the passage is disused as an entrance. A new front doorway has been provided into the inner room. House is 2 storeys. Exterior: irregular 4-window front of C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars. The passage front doorway at the right end and the present front doorway left of centre both contain C20 plank door. Roof is gable-ended to left and half-hipped to right. Interior: was not available for inspection at the time of this survey but the farmer claims that it contains a great deal of early carpentry detail and that it has been little modernised since the C19. A detailed internal investigation should be undertaken before any modernisation or alteration here.
Listing NGR: SX7120195863
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95057
- 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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