Tunhill Farmhouse
TUNHILL FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1260138
- Date first listed:
- 03-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Tunhill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- TUNHILL FARMHOUSE
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- Date:
- 2001-10-25
- Reference:
- IOE01/05475/14
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1260138
- Date first listed:
- 03-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Tunhill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- TUNHILL 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:
- TUNHILL FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Widecombe in the Moor
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 72716 75789
Details
WIDECOMBE-IN- SX 77 NW THE-MOOR 2/215 Tunhill Farmhouse -
- II*
Farmhouse, formerly a longhouse. Probably late medieval, remodelled in C16. Granite rubble. Wheatreed thatched roof, half-hipped at left-hand end. Rendered stone chimneystack (heating former hall) on ridge off-centre to left. 2 stone stacks, the right-hand one rendered, in rear wall at left and right ends; probably C17. Plan has through-passage with former shippon to left and 3 rooms to right. Shippon now divided into 2 rooms; it probably had a kitchen inserted next to the passage by C17. Former hall to right of passage with fireplace backing on to the latter. Beyond that a further main room, with fireplace probably by C17 and a rectangular rear stair turret. Small dark room beyond that again, built into the hillside. 2 storeys (part or whole of house probably single-storeyed originally). 5 windows wide. Mostly C19 wood casements with glazing-bars; second ground storey window from right and left-hand second storey window have C20 casements. Main doorway has solid-walled porch with seats inside; side-walls are of stone, front wall probably of rendered brick. Second doorway at left-hand end, probably a C19 doorway with early C20 door. Interior: hall, to right of through-passage, has ceiling of unusual quality formed of intersecting upper floor beams and joists arranged to create a chequer pattern. Beams and joists are chamfered with step-stops, the "steps" themselves being sharply chamfered; the joists run in opposing directions in adjacent compartments of the ceiling. C16 fireplace with oven. Against opposite wall a stone bench with late C16 or early C17 panelled back. Early roof-timbers, with some evidence of smoke- blackening (seen by Miss E Gawne). Shippon drain reported to survive under floorboards. The house part retains most of its old plaster wall-surfaces and still has the atmosphere of a traditional Dartmoor farmhouse.
Listing NGR: SX7271675789
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441623
- 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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