Lake Farmhouse
LAKE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1242528
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Lake Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LAKE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1242528
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Lake Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LAKE 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:
- LAKE 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 70438 72294
Details
WIDECOMBE-IN- POUNDSGATE SX 77 SW THE-MOOR 6/251 Lake Farmhouse 23.8.55 - II*
Farmhouse. Late C16 or early C17, altered 1661. Granite rubble. Thatched roof; shippons to right covered with corrugated iron. Granite chimneystack (heating former hall) on ridge, with weatherings, one of them inside the roofspace as a result of raising the roof; added red brick shaft on top. C18 or C19 granite stack in right-hand gable wall. Plan has 2 rooms to left of cross-passage, these having a second cross-passage between them. 2-storeyed entrance-porch to main cross-passage, this having a small room built into the left-hand side. Rounded stair turret at rear of each room. To right of main cross-passage is a small unheated room with 2 shippons beyond; although this room is divided from the shippons by a solid wall only in the ground storey, there is no evidence of former doorway between them. 2 storeys. 5 windows wide. C19 wood casements, mostly with glazing-bars. Porch in fourth bay from left has round-arched doorway of carved granite with three-quarter- round moulding and primitive raised decoration in the spandrels, these carrying the initials TH and date 1661. To left of doorway a small rectangular window with hollow-moulded granite surround. Inner doorway has chamfered stone surround with cranked head. Shippon has 2 doorways with plank doors having old wrought-iron strap hinges. 1 small unglazed window between them. Right-hand gable has plank door to loft with wrought iron strap hinges. Slit window below it and 2 more in rear wall. Interior has lightly-chamfered upper floor beams, the former hall with chamfered and stopped joists. Hall fireplace backs on to passage; heavy wooden lintel and oven having stone-framed opening with arched head. Left-hand staircase has winding stone steps. The 2 shippons, separated from each other by a stone wall on the ground storey, both have central drains, the left-hand shippon has stones defining a feeding trough along the front and back walls; some of the stones seem to have shallow holes on top for tethering posts. Roofs all rebuilt in softwood, late C19 or early C20. Lake formerly contained panelling believed to have come from Spitchwick Chapel; this is now at Sandridge in Stoke Gabriel parish (information from Mrs F Wilkinson).
Listing NGR: SX7043872294
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441959
- 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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