Penhay Farmhouse
PENHAY FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250709
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Penhay Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- PENHAY FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14016/13
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250709
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Penhay Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- PENHAY 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:
- PENHAY 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 84048 08417
Details
POUGHILL SS 80 NW 6/202 - Penhay Farmhouse - II
Farmhouse. Probably C16 core, mid and late C17 improvements, C19 and C20 modernisations. Plastered cob on rubble footings; rubble stacks topped with C19 and C20 brick; slate roof (formerly thatch). Altered 3-room-and-through-passage plan house facing south with inner room at right (east) end. Projecting end stacks to service and inner rooms and projecting rear lateral stack to hall. 2 storeys. Irregular 5 window front comprising a variety of late C19 and C20 casements, some of latter iron-framed and all with glazing bars. C20 fixed pane window with leaded panes slightly left of centre blocks former front passage door. Present C20 door immediately to left to service room. Gable-ended roof. Interior shows mostly C19 and C20 plaster which probably hides earlier features. All fireplaces are blocked. Hall has early C17 ovolo-moulded and scroll-stopped crossbeam and inner room has mid-C17 chamfered and bar-scroll stopped axial beam. Cob crosswall at lower side of former passage and service room has 2 crossbeams, the ends of which are either unstopped or with runout or straight cut stops - late C17. Roof has been mostly replaced in late C19-early C20 but early C17 A-frame truss with pegged dovetail, lap-jointed collar between hall and inner room and a late C17 A-frame with plain pegged lap-jonted collar over service room. Sooted truss said to have been removed from hall.
Listing NGR: SS8404808417
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433171
- 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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