Higher Fisherton Farmhouse Including Front Garden Railings
HIGHER FISHERTON FARMHOUSE INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN RAILINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209749
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Fisherton Farmhouse Including Front Garden Railings
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER FISHERTON FARMHOUSE INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN RAILINGS
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209749
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Fisherton Farmhouse Including Front Garden Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER FISHERTON FARMHOUSE INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN RAILINGS
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:
- HIGHER FISHERTON FARMHOUSE INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN RAILINGS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Atherington
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 59958 22971
Details
ATHERINGTON SS 52 SE 5/5 Higher Fisherton Farmhouse - including front garden railings
GV II
Farmhouse. Probably C17 extended to rear in late C17 or early C18. Painted roughcast rendered stone and some cob. Slate roof with gable end rubble stacks with offsets. Nearly symmetrical 2-room plan with heated rooms each side of wide through-passage containing staircase. Probably in late C17 or early C18 a kitchen wing was added to rear of right hand room and through-passage and forming overall L-shaped plan. 2 storeys. 3-window range. C20 3-light casements, 3 panes per light. Leanto slate roof to porch with 4 panelled door, the upper 2 panels glazed. Interior : largely altered in C19 with most of the joinery of this date intact. Ceiling beam and bressumer with broad chamfers to right hand room, beams boxed in to left hand room. One C17 stop-chamfered door surround to chamfer over right hand room. Dairy fittings intact. No access to main roof space but the feet of 3 trusses with straight heavy principals suggest the C17 roof structure survives. Front garden railings of cast iron, made by T.Lake, Barnstaple.
Listing NGR: SS5995822971
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 96866
- 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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