Henceford Farmhouse
HENCEFORD FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262938
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Henceford Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HENCEFORD FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262938
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Henceford Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HENCEFORD 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:
- HENCEFORD FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thelbridge
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 82261 11658
Details
THELBRIDGE SS 81 SW 3/250 Henceford Farmhouse - - II
Farmhouse. Probably mid-C16 with major later C16 and C17 improvements and late C19- early C20 extension. Plastered cob on rubble footings; rubble stacks topped with C20 brick; corrugated asbestos roof (formerly thatched). Long building facing south with a 4-room-and-through-passage plan, that is to say, the inner room at the left (west)end was separated from the hall by a lobby room. Projecting newel stair turret to rear of lobby. Right (service end) extended in late C19-early C20. Projecting end stack to inner room/parlour, axial stack backing onto passage to hall and rear lateral stack to service room. 2 storeys. Irregular 6-window front of C20 iron- framed casements without glazing bars. C20 door to passage right of centre and C20 French windows with glazing bars to former lobby. Roof is hipped to right and gable- ended to left. Both hall and inner rooms have original broad stone rubble chimney shafts with dripcourses and coping, now topped with brick. Good interior. The oldest apparent feature is a side-pegged jointed cruck truss over the hall. It is arguably smoke-blackened suggesting possibility of open hearth fire in original open hall. Possibly contemporary oak plank-and-muntin screen at upper end of hall with chamfered muntins roll-stopped high enough to accommodate a bench below and includes flat-arch headed doorway. House was extensively refurbished in early or mid C17 and most other exposed features appear to date from that period. Hall has rubble fireplace with a massive timber corbel carrying lintel on right side and the lintel is soffit-chamfered with straight cut stops. Hall beam chamfered with roll stops. Another plank-and-muntin screen between lobby and inner room/parlour was removed within living memory. Parlour has double-ovolo moulded crossbeams with bar- scroll stops. Rubble fireplace has replacement lintel. Partitions either side of lobby are carried up and their oak framing is exposed in roofspace. Both are identical closed trusses with unusually-shaped dovetail lap-jointed collars. Section above collars have never been filled and might be considered partly smoke-blackened. Service end has an A-frame truss with mortice, tenoned and pegged collar. Service end fireplace which includes brick oven is probably C19.
Listing NGR: SS8226111658
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433679
- 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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