Townstal Farmhouse
TOWNSTAL FARMHOUSE, TOWNSTAL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218157
- Date first listed:
- 23-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Townstal Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- TOWNSTAL FARMHOUSE, TOWNSTAL ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218157
- Date first listed:
- 23-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Townstal Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWNSTAL FARMHOUSE, TOWNSTAL 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.
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:
- TOWNSTAL FARMHOUSE, TOWNSTAL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dartmouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 86983 51550
Details
DARTMOUTH
SX8651 TOWNSTAL ROAD, Townstal 673-1/5/294 (South West side) 23/10/72 Townstal Farmhouse
GV II
Former farmhouse, now a guesthouse. C17 or earlier core, much altered in the C19 and C20, with C20 extensions. Painted stone rubble; stone rubble end and rear lateral stacks have chimneyshafts with plastered brick tops; asbestos slate roof, probably thatch originally. PLAN: L-plan includes 3-room-and-through-passage plan to main block; former service wing projects forward at right-angles from the left (inner room) end; integral outshut to rear right. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; late C18/early C19 regular 4-window front. Front doorway a little right of centre (with straight join immediately left) contains a top-glazed 6-panel door behind a gabled stone porch with round-headed outer arch. Flanking windows have low segmental brick arches over pairs of 12-pane sashes and, to left, a 16-pane sash. First-floor 12-pane sashes. Plain eaves to gable-ended roof. Gabled front block contains a C20 door in an older frame under a C20 hood next to the main block. Its windows are casements with glazing bars except for the two 12-pane sashes in the outer side wall. Rear C20 extensions. INTERIOR: Much altered. No early carpentry is exposed. Fireplaces have been exposed and mended, the most complete are those in the 2 right-hand rooms, both with side ovens. Roof not inspected.
Listing NGR: SX8698351550
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387377
- 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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