Down Farmhouse
DOWN FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250867
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Down Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- DOWN FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250867
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Down Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOWN 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:
- DOWN FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stockleigh English
- National Grid Reference:
- SS8381007081
Details
SS 80 NW
6/223
STOCKLEIGH ENGLISH
Down Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Circa early C16 with major late C16 and C17 improvements; modernised
circa 1982. Plastered cob on rubble footings; rubble stacks with C20 brick chimney
shafts; thatched roof. 3-room-and-through-passage plan house facing south with
inner room at left (west) end. C17 kitchen block at right angles to rear of service
room and passage. Projecting end stack to inner room and projecting lateral stacks
to front of hall and to outer side of kitchen. 2 storeys. Irregular 3-window front
comprising late C19-early C20 casements with glazing bars on ground floor and C20
casements without glazing bars on first floor. C20 door to front of passage
immediately right of hall stack. Doorway and ground floor windows have oak lintels
exposed. C20 casements to rear and kitchen block. Gable-ended roof.
Interior: C16 large-framed crosswall on lower side of passage to small unheated
service room. C16 oak plank-and-muntin screen from passage to hall; the muntins are
chamfered with cut diagonal stops to hall only. This was probably low screen when
hall was open to roof. Upper end of hall has C16 oak plank-and-muntin screen; the
muntins are chamfered with roll stops above bench level and head beam has moulded
strip along top. Inner room side has muntins only chamfered with roll stops. It is
not possibly to ascertain whether this was a low screen or lower part of a
crosswall. Hall fireplace rebuilt in brick circa 1982. Hall floored in mid-late
C17 with plain chamfered crossbeam. Inner room fireplace is blocked. Main block
reroofed at about same time as rear block built with C17 A-frame trusses with pegged
lap-jointed collars. Kitchen has C17 chamfered and scroll-stopped crossbeam and
large fireplace rebuilt in brick circa 1982. Large bread oven to right is now
converted to a cupboard.
Listing NGR: SS8381007081
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433361
- 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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