LIZWELL FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1241848
Date first listed:: 23-Aug-1955
List Entry Name:: LIZWELL FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: LIZWELL FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1241848
Date first listed:: 23-Aug-1955
List Entry Name:: LIZWELL FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: LIZWELL FARMHOUSE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: LIZWELL 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 70671 74421

Details

WIDECOMBE-IN- SX 77 SW THE-MOOR 6/183 Lizwell Farmhouse 23.8.55 GV II

Farmhouse, possibly a former longhouse. Early C16 with right-hand end (possibly the former shippon) rebuilt in C18; left-hand end of main range may be basically medieval. Granite rubble, the older part of main range and the rear wing including some large-scale granite ashlar; left-hand end of front wall is covered with patches of old roughcast. Roofs covered with real slates, except for the older part of main range, which has asbestos slates; roof of rear wing, slightly higher than the rest, is hipped and has several old, handmade ridge-tiles with low crestings. Old chimneystack with stone weatherings on centre of ridge; smaller stack on each gable, the left-hand one with an added brick shaft. In rear wall of older part of main range is a very large stone stack. Plan consists of a cross-passage with 2 rooms to left (probably the former hall and inner rooms) and 2 further rooms rebuilt in C18) to right. Behind and at right-angles to the hall is a 1-room wing, probably a parlour with high-quality chamber over, added in early C16. The position of the chimneystacks is unusual for a Dartmoor farmhouse. It is very rare to find the hall fireplace in the rear wall of the hall; this one may even have had a second fireplace at the rear, heating the parlour. On the right-hand side of the cross- passage, abutting the section rebuilt in C18, is another old stack; this may have been inserted to heat a kitchen at the upper end of the shippon, a modification found in several Dartmoor longhouses. 2 storeys. 6-window front. Older part to left is 3 windows wide with 8-paned sashes, many of the panes containing old glass. Between-storeys in each of the 2 left-hand bays is a panel of slate-hanging. Old plank door in right-hand bay of this part, opening into cross-passage; above it is a C20 wooden hood with slated pent roof. Just to the right of the door is a full- height straight-joint, and at the top of the piece of wall between this and the doorway is a granite block carved with the date 1630 and 2 almost illegible initials; according to the former list these are R E with a heart between them. In the rebuilt right-hand section all the windows have 3-light C19 casements with 3 panes per light. The 2 ground-storey windows have flat arches with roughly-cut voussoirs. Between them is a doorway with a plain granite lintel; above it are some re-set fragments of medieval stone window-tracery. In the north-east wall of the rear wing, in the ground storey, is an early C16 granite window of 3 lights. The mullions have been removed, but the hollow-moulded round-arched heads remain, set within a rectangular hollow-moulded frame having a heavy hood-mould above. Interior: ground-storey room of wing has broad, chamfered upper-floor beams. Room above seems, from the occupants' description, to have roof-trusses with arch-braced collar-beams. Remainder of interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX7067174421

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Legacy System number:: 441085
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.