Lions Farmhouse
LIONS FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203713
- Date first listed:
- 26-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lions Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LIONS FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/13156/18
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203713
- Date first listed:
- 26-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lions Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LIONS 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:
- LIONS FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rockbeare
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 02556 94497
Details
SY 09 SW ROCKBEARE
3/101 Lions Farmhouse -
- II
Farmhouse. C17 and date plaque of 1696, modernised and enlarged in late C19. The walls are plastered and the materials unknown but the original section is probably cob on rubble footings whilst the extensions are brick or stone rubble; one of the stacks maybe cob, another is late C17 brick and the extension has a late C19 brick kitchen stack; slate roof. The main block has a 2-room plan with central cross passage and faces east. The left (southern) room has an end stack and the right room has a projecting end stack. The rear blocks are under parallel roofs at right angles to the main range appear to be late C19 and include contemporary stair and kitchen. 2 storeys. Symmetrical main front has 2 ground floor and 4 first floor windows. All are similar late C19 casements and those on the first floor are half dormers with gabled roofs. Contemporary part-glazed and panelled front door with slate-roofed monopitch hood on curving brackets is set a little right of centre. The main roof is gable- ended. These gables and those of the half dormers have similar wavy-shaped barge boards. The right end stack has weathered offsets and the original chimney shaft contains a limestone plaque inscribed TRA 1696. The shaft has been extended with late C19 brick. Interior is largely the result of the late C19 refurbishment although much of the C17 fabric remains in the front block. The axial beam across the right room and cross passage is boxed in but that in the left room is soffit-chamfered with exaggerated scroll stops. Both fireplaces are blocked. The roof was not examined since the extension of the right and chimney shaft suggests that the roof was replaced at a higher level in the late C19.
Listing NGR: SY0255694497
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 352423
- 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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