Kennacott Farmhouse
KENNACOTT FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261796
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Kennacott Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- KENNACOTT FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261796
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1986
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Kennacott Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- KENNACOTT 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:
- KENNACOTT FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Horwood, Lovacott and Newton Tracey
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 53247 26147
Details
NEWTON TRACEY SS 52 NW 4/5 Kennacott Farmhouse - (formerly listed under the parish of Fremington) 29.5.86
GV II
Farmhouse. Cl7, remodelled and extended in early C19. Rendered stone and cob. Slate roofs with gable end brick stacks to front range and gable end brick stack and lateral brick stack to west side, enclosed in continuous outshut. The Cl7 range probably originally 3-room plan but inner room demolished and replaced by C19 symmetrical 2-room central staircase plan at right angles to the Cl7 range which then became the rear service wing. 2 storeys. C19 facade has 3-window range. Early C20 2-light casements, 4 panes per light, above two 7-light casements 6 panes per light flanking flat-roofed timber porch with 4 panelled door, the upper panels glazed. Lean-to at right end. Rear wing has C19 casements of 3 lights to left and 4 lights to right on each floor of 4-panelled door with slate lean-to roof. Gothick pointed arched doorway at gable end. Interior: Cl7 range contains fragment of moulded plaster cornice to hall. Fine C19 integral lavatory seat with highly decorative bowl and original flushing mechanism off principal chamber. C19 range undergoing extensive interior alterations at time of survey (June 1985) but retains dog-leg staircase with moulded handrail and turned balusters, and moulded cornice to room to left of entrance hall. 4 C19 trusses to front range with pegged lap-jointed collars and 2 tiers of trenched purlins and diagonally set ridge purlin. Roof timbers to Cl7 range appear to have been replaced in C20.
Listing NGR: SS5324726147
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436661
- 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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