Pool Batten Farmhouse
POOL BATTEN FARMHOUSE, POOL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209840
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Pool Batten Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- POOL BATTEN FARMHOUSE, POOL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209840
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Pool Batten Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- POOL BATTEN FARMHOUSE, POOL LANE
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:
- POOL BATTEN FARMHOUSE, POOL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Burrington
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 64959 17824
Details
BURRINGTON POOL LANE SS 61 NW
5/38 Pool Batten Farmhouse - - II
Farmhouse. Probably early C16, hall floored in late C16 or early C17 probably when rear wing was added, with C20 alterations. Rendered stone and cob. Asbestos tiled half-hipped roof. Front lateral hall stack with offsets and brick shaft. Stone rubble stack set at an angle across upper rear left-hand corner. 3-room and former through-passage plan, the front and rear doorways of the through- passage having been blocked in C20 and the hall/through passage screen removed. The hall was originally open to the roof, and was probably floored over when the 2- storeyed, gable-ended service range was added to its rear in the C17. C20 replaced staircase at lower end to right, which is unheated; stack at upper end probably inserted in C18. 2 storeys. 4-window range. C20 fenestration throughout, all 2-light casements. Inserted C20 door with parlour with gabled porch. Window inserted in blocked through-passage doorway. Plank door direct into lower end. Interior: Screen removed from upper side of through-passage in C20, but morticed headrail survives. Hall joists apparently replaced in C20. Cranked heads to chamfered door surrounds to doorway from hall into service range and to blocked rear through passage doorway. Rough chamfered cross ceiling beam to upper end with bread oven to inserted fireplace. Wide chamfered cross ceiling beams with pyramid stops to lower end. Solid wall partitions to lower side of cross-passage and between hall/inner room. Roof: not inspected but known to be smoke-blackened with 2 jointed cruck trusses with diagonally set ridge purlin. (Alcock : Cruck Catalogue).
Listing NGR: SS6495917824
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 97166
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Alcock, N W, Council for British Archaeology Research Report in Cruck Construction An Introduction And Catalogue, (1981)
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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