West Henstill House
WEST HENSTILL HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1258873
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- West Henstill House
- Statutory Address:
- WEST HENSTILL HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1258873
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- West Henstill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST HENSTILL HOUSE
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:
- WEST HENSTILL HOUSE
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 80221 03885
Details
SS 80 SW SANDFORD
3/206 West Henstill House
II
Farmhouse, now house. C16, altered circa 1920. Plastered cob and rubble; stack of small squared blocks of volcanic stone topped with early C20 brick; thatched roof. Originally a 3-room-and-through-passage house facing south-east with inner room at left (south-west) end. Circa 1920 service room demolished and rear service wing built behind passage and hall. Large projecting lateral stack to front of hall. C19 outshot on left end. Now 2 storeys. Irregular 2-window front to main house comprising late C19-early C20 casements with glazing bars. Front of hall including window on each floor is broken forward flush with front of hall stack on right and includes a small ground floor side-light. Both first floor windows have thatched gables over. Hall stack has original late C16 volcanic stone chimney shaft with projecting coping. It is now topped with early C20 brick. Passage door now at right end. Roof is half-hipped to left and gabled to right. Right end wall of circa 1920 volcanic rubble with brick dressings. Good interior. C16 oak plank- and-muntin screen from passage to hall has moulded head beam. Hall fireplace lintel and hall are crossbeam chamfered with worn, indistinct stops. Full height cob crosswall between hall and inner room. Hall roof supported on side-pegged jointed cruck roof. Roof space inaccessible.
Listing NGR: SS8022103885
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 445706
- 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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