Lower Birbrook Farmhouse
LOWER BIRBROOK FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261683
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Birbrook Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER BIRBROOK FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261683
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Birbrook Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER BIRBROOK 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:
- LOWER BIRBROOK FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tawstock
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 57675 25716
Details
TAWSTOCK SS 52 NE 4/56 - Lower Birbrook Farmhouse 25.2.65 II Farmhouse. Late C15 or early C16 with late C16 remodelling. Rendered stone and cob. Asbestos slate roof with gable ends. Rendered stack at left end and tall front lateral hall stack with offsets and tapered cap, heightened in brick. 3 room and through-passage, former open hall house with stair turret enclosed in C19 rear outshuts with tiled roofs. 2 storeys. 3 window range. C19/C20 fenestration. 2 light casement 2 panes per light on each floor to left of porch with slated pentice roof butting into stack with 4 panelled door, the upper ends glazed. 2 light casement 6 panes per light over hall casement of 3 lights 2 panes per light. Upper end which is recessed slightly has 2 light casements on each floor, 2 panes per light above, 6 panes per light below. Interior Axial chamfered ceiling beams to inner room and hall, the latter with hollow step stops. Jowled heads to the jambs to the hall/inner room doorway, the arched lintel having been removed. Creamery niche with small cupboard to right above integral bench which runs round into the front window recess. C19 slate dairy fittings intact to rear outshut. Chamfered door surround with scroll stops to stair turret. Original dog leg staircase with wide treads and stair rail with moulded handrail, splat balusters with bar stops to the tops of arris arns and chamfered scroll-stopped newels. Said to be three moulded plasterers marks to chamber over lower end partition wall. Roof structure over lower end replaced in C20. Over the hall is a jointed cruck truss with steeply cranked morticed and tenoned collar with threaded purlins and ridge purlin. Closed lath and plaster partition to lower end of hall. The hall/inner room partition also rises as a full height partition to a closed truss with principals of much lighter scantling lapped to form and X apex with a thin morticed and tenoned collar. The timbers over the hall and inner room are all heavily smoke-blackened and it seems probable that the house was formerly open to the roof from end to end, with a phased insertion of floors, the higher floor level to the chamber over the hall suggesting the latter was the last to be ceiled.
Listing NGR: SS5767525716
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436875
- 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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