Sherwell Farmhouse
SHERWELL FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242053
- Date first listed:
- 03-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Sherwell Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SHERWELL FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242053
- Date first listed:
- 03-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Sherwell Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHERWELL 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:
- SHERWELL 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 67880 74913
Details
WIDECOMBE-IN- SX 67 SE THE-MOOR 5/203 Sherwell Farmhouse -
GV II
Farmhouse, formerly a longhouse. C17 or earlier, with later additions. Granite rubble, the front of house part-covered with roughcast. House part thatched with hip at right-hand end; left-hand side (the former shippon) slated with hip on left. Large plain granite chimneystack (probably heating former hall) on ridge at left- hand end of house part. Small C20 rendered stack at each end of building. Traditional 3-room plan, with 2 domestic rooms to right and former shippon to left; there is no longer a cross-passage (if one ever existed), the front door opening into a lobby. 2 storeys, with single-storey additions. House part is 2 windows wide; C19 wood casements with 2 or 3 panes per light. Projecting from the left-hand side is a small gabled building, formerly a well-house. In front of shippon end a lean-to which also forms a porch to the front doorway; latter has an old plank door with wrought-iron strap-hinges. There was formerly an outbuilding at the right-hand end, of which only a small piece of walling and the doorway remains; this has monolothic granite jambs and lintel. Interior: hall stack backs on to entrance-lobby. Built-up against it on the lobby side is a chamfered upper-floor beam. Hall fireplace is chamfered, with monolithic granite jambs and lintel. Upper floor beams chamfered, the stops (if any ever existed) having been worn away; chamfered joists with step stops. Stone wall divides off the inner room, which is quite large and seems to have been a kitchen. Gable fireplace with plain granite jambs and lintel; oven in the back having stone- framed opening with shallow shelf in front. To left of fireplace a winding granite staircase with blocked slit window. Upper floor beam is rough and unchamfered; joists C20. Second storey not inspected. Owner says she believes the shippon survived until shortly before she arrived in 1950s. Mrs F Wilkinson thinks this may once have been a mirrored pair of longhouses, each with a domestic room and a shippon.
Listing NGR: SX6788074913
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441399
- 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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