Perry Farmhouse
PERRY FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240180
- Date first listed:
- 28-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Perry Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- PERRY FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240180
- Date first listed:
- 28-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Perry Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- PERRY 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:
- PERRY FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thorverton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 92852 05701
Details
SS 90 NW THORVERTON 5/107 Perry Farmhouse - II Farmhouse. Circa early C16 origins, remodelled in the circa late C16/early C17. Whitewashed and rendered, probably cob and stone, left end wall rebuilt in brick; thatched roof with plain ridge, hipped at left end, adjoining barn at right end; axial stack with rendered shaft, left end stack with brick shaft. Plan and Development Access to interior unobtainable at time of survey (1986) but probably a 3 room and through passage arrangement of late medieval origins, lower end to the right. The hall was probably floored late C16/early C17 and the hall stack added backing on to the through passage. Rear left wing at right angles to the inner room is probably a later addition. Exterior 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3 window front, the eaves thatch eyebrowed over the first floor windows. Front door to through passage to right of centre; 2 and 3-light C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars. Interior Not inspected at time of survey (1986) but said to have smoke-blackened roof timbers complete with rafters and thatch and circa late C16/early C17 carpentry on the ground floor. Possibly the house of William atte Purie (1330). The Sites and Monuments Register (County Hall) states that a full survey record by Charles Hulland is deposited in the west Country Studies Library.
Listing NGR: SS9285205701
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438285
- 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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