Great Woods Farmhouse
GREAT WOODS FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213306
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Great Woods Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT WOODS FARMHOUSE
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- 2006-02-04
- Reference:
- IOE01/14885/30
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213306
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Great Woods Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREAT WOODS 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:
- GREAT WOODS FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Molland
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 79627 27160
Details
MOLLAND SS 72 NE 14/51 Great Woods Farmhouse - 20.6.67 II Farmhouse. Probably C16, with late-C19 addition and mid-to late C20 alterations. Rendered over stone rubble and cob. Gable-ended asbestos-slate roof, formerly thatched. Rendered front lateral stack, tops of stacks of C19 red brick. Plan and development: Probably 3-room and cross-passage plan, facing west with ground falling to right. Central room with full-height projection and external lateral stack to front, probably with cross passage to right. Service room to right with external lateral stack to rear and upper room to left with entrance in left-hand gable end. C19 wing to rear of upper room with integral brick end stack and lean-to outshut to north. Late C20 lean-to porch to front, right of stack. Two storeys. Exterior: Asymmetrical front with lateral stack to right of centre. Centre first- floor C19 3-light wooden casement, and two C20 ground-floor wooden casements, 3-light to centre and 2-light to left. Boarded door to right of stack with late-C20 porch. Front stack with chamfered offsets. Left-hand gable end with first-floor 2-light wooden casement and ground-floor boarded door. Interior: Access denied. Old list description mentions open fireplaces, hall with moulded ceiling beams and joists, and kitchen with plain timber ceiling. Sawn purlin ends visible in left-hand gable end. The owner (August 1987) also reports chamfered beams.
Listing NGR: SS7962727160
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 397880
- 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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