Town Farmhouse
TOWN FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250521
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Town Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250521
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Town Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN 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:
- TOWN FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Woolfardisworthy
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 33206 20935
Details
WOOLFARDISWORTHY WOOLFARDISWORTHY SS 32 SE
5/229 Town Farmhouse
- II
Farmhouse. Mid C17, early C18 addition at the rear, C19 refenestration, some late C19 internal arrangement. Rendered and whitewashed stone walls, bitumenised slate roof, brick shafts to the stacks. Plan: 2 room and through passage plan with hall to left and a kitchen to the right, in the C19 the through-passage was widened into the hall and a staircase inserted. Early C18 wings at rear with early C19 dairy added to right. Exterior: 2 storeys, 3 windows on the front with C19 2-light casements with glazing bars on the first floor, 20-pane double- hung sash windows on the ground floor. Central door opening with a half-glazed door: Early C19 gabled porch. Wing to right rear with C19 casements. Interior: The ground floor kitchen with 2 cross-beams, chamfered with ogee stops the other plastered, fireplace altered. To the right of the fireplace there is hollow which probably retained the original staircase. Hall to centre with C19 staircase. The parlour to left with ovolo-moulded cross-beam with an ogee stop with a preceding fillet; fireplace altered. The wing at the rear with fitted bench on 3 sides for a table. On the first floor a mid C17 cupboard in the room over the parlour which has 2 doors to what was probably a hanging cupboard with mannerist panelling, 2 draws under, probably intended for clothes.
Listing NGR: SS3320720941
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432912
- 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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