BROWNS FARMHOUSE INCLUDING OUTBUILDINGS ADJOINING TO EAST AND NORTH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1262078
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1965
List Entry Name:: BROWNS FARMHOUSE INCLUDING OUTBUILDINGS ADJOINING TO EAST AND NORTH
Statutory Address:: BROWNS FARMHOUSE INCLUDING OUTBUILDINGS ADJOINING TO EAST AND NORTH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1262078
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1965
List Entry Name:: BROWNS FARMHOUSE INCLUDING OUTBUILDINGS ADJOINING TO EAST AND NORTH
Statutory Address 1:: BROWNS FARMHOUSE INCLUDING OUTBUILDINGS ADJOINING TO EAST AND NORTH

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BROWNS FARMHOUSE INCLUDING OUTBUILDINGS ADJOINING TO EAST AND NORTH

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Colebrooke
National Grid Reference:: SS 77202 01092

Details

COLEBROOKE COLEFORD SS 70 SE 3/104 Browns Farmhouse including outbuildings adjoining to east 26.8.65 and north

GV II

Farmhouse, formerly The Ship Inn, and attached outbuildings. Farmhouse has C17 fabric but was rebuilt in late C18-early C19. Outbuildings are late C19, those to east are circa 1870 according to owner. Farmhouse and northern outbuildings are plastered cob on rubble footings, eastern outbuildings and northern barn of exposed local stone rubble; cob or rubble stacks topped with C19 or C20 brick; thatch roof to farmhouse and nearest outbuildings, corrugated iron and slate to outer outbuildings. L-shaped farmhouse. Main block faces south and has a 2-room and central through passage plan, the left (western) room with a projecting end stack and the right eastern room with a rear lateral stack. Service room to rear of left room with disused end kitchen stack. Attached to right end of the farmhouse is a former stable block with hayloft over and with a lean-to harness room or implement shed on the right end. To the rear of the farmhouse service room is a former butcher's shop and slaughter house with a barn behind (north). Farmhouse is 2 storeys with symmetrical 3-window front of late cl9-early C20 casements with glazing bars and contemporary central plank door which contains a pair of small windows. Roof is hipped each end and hipped to rear over service room which also has late cl9-early C20 casements on west-facing side. The rubble former stable block to right and set back a little from main front has central double doors flanked by glazed windows, and, at first floor level, a central loading hatch and shuttered window to left. The windows here and door to the lean- to shed alongside to right have segnental arches over. The stable roof is thatched and hipped to right; the shed roof is slated. The rear (northern) outbuildings face onto the road to west. The former butchers shop adjoining the farmhouse service roan is single storey with 3 windows under segmental arches, the central window blocking the original doorway. It has a gable-ended thatched roof. To left (north) is a rubble barn with gable-ended corrugated iron roof. Its main (west facing) front comprises large double doorway to threshing floor towards right end and 2 unglazed windows to left with buttresses between. Interior: carpentry detail in farmhouse is hidden by C19 plaster. The exterior of the right end wall of the main block is exposed in the stable block and clearly shows 2 cob builds. The C17 work complete wth gable includes an oak 2-light window with chamfered mullion at first floor level. The late C18 - early Cl9 cob shows that at that time the house was widened towards the front and raised in height. Roof of tie bean trusses with King post nailed to the front of each truss. Outbuilding interiors show plain C19 carpentry detail except stable block includes a reused early C17 ogee-moulded bean with step stops. Coleford is an unusually unspoilt and picturesque hamlet. According to the owner Browns Farm was formerly the Ship Inn which was licensed in 1815.

Listing NGR: SS7720201092

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Legacy System number:: 435813
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.