Collaton Farmhouse

COLLATON FARMHOUSE, TOTNES ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1195214
Date first listed:
08-Oct-1993
List Entry Name:
Collaton Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
COLLATON FARMHOUSE, TOTNES ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1195214
Date first listed:
08-Oct-1993
List Entry Name:
Collaton Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
COLLATON FARMHOUSE, TOTNES ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
COLLATON FARMHOUSE, TOTNES ROAD

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

District:
Torbay (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SX 86717 59947

Details

PAIGNTON

SX85NE TOTNES ROAD 1947-1/3/126 (South side) 08/10/93 Collaton Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Late 1840s/early 1850s. Simplified Tudor style. MATERIALS: Local red breccia rubble; slate roof; stacks with brick shafts. PLAN: Double-depth U-plan, facing west, high above and overlooking a planned farmyard. South cross-wing contains kitchen and dining room, with service stair; north cross-wing with parlour and main stair, service rooms to rear of main block behind axial corridor. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 1:2:2-bay garden (west) front, the cross-wings gabled to the front, the main block in the centre with 2 gabled first-floor windows is open on the ground floor forming a 3-bay verandah on posts with pitched stone paving. Original windows are 2 and 3-light mullioned and transomed windows with moulded mullions and small panes, the ground-floor windows with segmental heads. First floor window left and ground-floor window right have been replaced with later C19 or early C20 3 over 3-pane sashes. The right return (side of the south cross-wing) has 2 gabled first-floor windows with original fenestration, a massive projecting shouldered lateral stack to the left, a wide timber kitchen door. Kitchen window to right reglazed with a C20 timber plate-glass window. The rear (east) elevation is consists of the gable end of the S cross-wing to the left and the main block to the right which has a gabled first-floor window and large gable at the right end. Massive projecting shouldered kitchen stack to wing. 2 original first-floor windows. The ground floor has a slated pentice, partly infilled with concrete block and 2 doorways into the house. The north elevation, facing the road, has a stair window. INTERIOR: Retains one 1870s white marble chimney-piece, some flag floors; original joinery including doors, shutters and 2 stout stick baluster staircases. Kitchen fireplace retains bread oven with iron door. One of a group with associated planned farmyard.

Listing NGR: SX8671759947

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Legacy System number:
383890
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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