Cleaves Farmhouse
CLEAVES FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250690
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Cleaves Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CLEAVES FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250690
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Cleaves Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLEAVES 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:
- CLEAVES FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Poughill
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 86284 08908
Details
POUGHILL SS 80 NE 7/195 Cleaves Farmhouse - - II
Farmhouse. C16 with major C17 and C18 improvements and extension. Plastered rubble with some cob, plastered rubble extension; rubble stack topped with C20 brick; corrugated iron roof (formerly thatch). Originally a 3-room-and-cross- passage plan house across the hillslope facing south-east with former inner room at left (north-eastern end). C18 1 room extension on right end. Projecting end stack to inner room and projecting rear lateral stacks to hall and service rooms. 2 storeys. Regular 5-window front of C20 casements, some with glazing bars. Roughly central front door to passage with C20 gabled and pantile-roofed porch. Secondary door at left end to extension. Roof half-hipped to right, hipped to left. Both rear stacks have tall chimney shafts of C20 brick. No sign of blocked reap passage doorway. Interior: lower side of passage has late C16-early C17 oak plank-and-muntin screen which includes central flat-arched door. Muntins are chamfered on passage side only and stops are worn. Cob crosswall on upper side of passage. Hall has high quality late C16-early C17 volcanic ashlar fireplace with oak lintel and ogee- moulded surround with chamfer-roll stops. Oven has been demolished and its stone doorway is now glazed and used as a window. Hall-inner room partition mostly removed. Both hall and inner room have probably C17 plain chamfered axial beams. Service room has late C17-early C18 chamfered half beam with runout stops and stone rubble fireplace with plain oak lintel and rear oven, probably also late C17-early C18. Late C17-early C18 5-bay roof to main house comprising A-frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed collars and X-apexes. It includes a couple of reused smoke- blackened common rafters. Similar but clearly secondary 2-bay roof over extension.
Listing NGR: SS8628408908
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433147
- 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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