Woolsgrove Farmhouse
WOOLSGROVE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1258813
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- Statutory Address:
- WOOLSGROVE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1258813
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOOLSGROVE FARMHOUSE
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WOOLSGROVE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sandford
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 79241 02732
Details
SS 70 SE SANDFORD
2/208 Woolsgrove Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse. Late C16-early C17, thoroughly remodelled in early-mid C19. Plastered cob and rubble; rubble stacks topped with C19 brick; concrete tile roof (formerly thatch). Much altered 3-room-and-through-passage house facing south-east with former inner room at right (north-east) end. End stacks and projecting lateral stack to rear of hall. In early C19 passage converted to stair hall, inner room converted to kitchen, game store built to rear of inner room/kitchen and circa 1919 hall fireplace blocked and converted to serve rear extension. 2 storeys. Balanced 5-window front with rusticated quoins each end. Central late 019 2-storey canted bay window contains large pane sashes with margin panes. 4-panel door with overlight containing radial glazing bars, panelled reveals and Tuscan doorcase with pilasters and entablature is left of centre. 12-pane hornless sash right of centre and 9-pane sash above it and another over door. At each end 16 pane hornless sashes with 12-pane sashes above them. All windows have granite sills and, with the exception of the bay, all first floor windows have one pane deep upper sashes. Rear lateral stack of snecked volcanic stone blocks has moulded shoulder to chimney shaft with moulded coping with castellated top (now surmounted with C19 brick). Interior has mostly C19 fittings but late C16-early C17 features are probably hidden. Late C16-early C17 7-bay roof is intact and carried on side-pegged jointed cruck trusses, the 2-bay hall (over stair lobby and central room) has cambered collars. Site of medieval estate (Devon SMR).
Listing NGR: SS7924102732
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 445708
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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