Foxworthy Farmhouse
FOXWORTHY FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241700
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Foxworthy Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- FOXWORTHY FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05476/25
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241700
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Foxworthy Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- FOXWORTHY 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:
- FOXWORTHY FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Widecombe in the Moor
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 69439 74095
Details
WIDECOMBE-IN- SX 67 SE THE-MOOR 5/165 Foxworthy Farmhouse 23.8.55 GV II
Farmhouse, formerly a longhouse. C16, or possibly earlier, with C19 and C20 additions at rear; porch probably added in late C17 or early 18. Former barn at left-hand end may be an early addition. Granite rubble; porch of granite ashlar. Thatched roof, half-hipped. 2 old granite stacks with flat, simple caps, on ridge to left of porch. Plan has through-passage with 2 rooms, probably former hall and parlour, to left; beyond that is a former barn now converted to living accommodation. Former shippon to right, now occupied by a single large room. 2 storeys; single-storey additions. Older house-part 3 windows wide, including porch. All windows C20, including 2 inserted in former shippon. Porch is 2- storeyed with round-arched doorway having voussoirs, well cut but of uneven sizes. Inside, an old stone-flagged floor and, on the left, a stone bench; above this a recess, possibly a blocked slit window. To left of porch a shallowly projecting stair turret. Slit window with dripstone in rear wall of former barn. Interior has hall fireplace backing on to through-passage (no architectural detail on passage side). At rear of passage a round-arched doorway matching that in the porch. Fireplace has chamfered granite lintel and jambs; oven in back with curved stone head and stone shelf in front. To right of it, splayed entrance to stair turret (stair removed). In rear wall, its head rising slightly above present upper- floor level, is an old 2-light wooden window, blocked in externally; the lights are mere slits, absolutely plain and with flat heads. Stone wall with old recesses divides hall from parlour; latter has gable-fireplace with hollow-moulded granite lintel; jambs are later. Floor-beams and roof-timbers all rebuilt C19 and C20. Present owner reports that Mr Walter Chaffe recalls seeing cattle in what is regarded as the shippon end.
Listing NGR: SX6943974095
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440881
- 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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