Foxhole Farmhouse Including Outbuildings Adjoining to South
FOXHOLE FARMHOUSE INCLUDING OUTBUILDINGS ADJOINING TO SOUTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262844
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Foxhole Farmhouse Including Outbuildings Adjoining to South
- Statutory Address:
- FOXHOLE FARMHOUSE INCLUDING OUTBUILDINGS ADJOINING TO SOUTH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262844
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Foxhole Farmhouse Including Outbuildings Adjoining to South
- Statutory Address 1:
- FOXHOLE FARMHOUSE INCLUDING OUTBUILDINGS ADJOINING TO SOUTH
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:
- FOXHOLE FARMHOUSE INCLUDING OUTBUILDINGS ADJOINING TO SOUTH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Woolfardisworthy
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 83034 08910
Details
WOOLFARDISWORTHY SS 80 NW 6/290 Foxhole Farmhouse including - outbuildings adjoining to south - II
Farmhouse and adjoining outbuildings. House is C17 and outbuildings C17-C19. House is plastered cob on rubble footings with cob or rubble stacks topped with C20 brick and thatched roof. Outbuildings of mostly plastered rubble or cob on rubble footings with corrugated iron roof (formerly thatch). Main block facing south has 3-room-and-cross-passage plan with service end room at left (west) end. Passage may originally have been a through-passage. Rear now blocked by C19 stair. Small unheated inner room. Hall has projecting front lateral stack and service end room has projecting end stack. Original semi-circular newel projecting to rear of hall. A range of agricultural outbuilding comprising stables, barn and store is built at right angles adjoining right (east) end of front. House is 2 storeys with a not quite symmetrical 2-window front of late C19 casements with glazing bars and larger windows to ground floor. Central C19 plank door to passage. Outbuildings abutt projecting hall stack to right. Windows in right end are similar late C19 casements with glazing bars. Roof is hipped to right and gable-ended to left. Interior: very complete and little modernised C17 interior cob crosswall to left of passage. An oak plank-and-muntin screen to right (hall) with the muntins chamfered with scroll stops on both sides. Left room has an axial beam, hall has a cross- beam; both are chamfered with scroll stops. Left fireplace is blocked but hall has rubble fireplace with soffit-chamfered and scroll-stopped oak lintel. No detail shows in small unheated inner room. Roof not inspected. The outbuilding adjoining right end of front comprise from left (house end) to right; a rubble stable with hayloft over with front door and unglazed window to front and hayloft loading hatch to rear; cob barn with large central opposed doorways and remains of short projecting midstrey walls; and at right end a rubble store with blind front wall and entrance in end. Roof is hipped at end. Outbuildings are included for group value.
Listing NGR: SS8303408910
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433936
- 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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