Pleases Farmhouse
PLEASES FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262965
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Pleases Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- PLEASES FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262965
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Pleases Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- PLEASES 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:
- PLEASES FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stockleigh Pomeroy
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 87890 03530
Details
STOCKLEIGH POMEROY STOCKLEIGH POMEROY SS 80 SE 10/247 - Pleases Farmhouse GV II
Farmhouse. Probably C16 or C17 and extended at lower end and to rear early-mid C19. Rendered and painted stone rubble and cob with dry slate roof with side eaves to front on shaped brackets, hipped to left, brick chimney over external breast to gable end right and large external lateral stone stacks with slate weathering and brick shaft to front right of entrance and rear to lower room but now partly obscured by C19 lean-to. Originally 3-room through-passage plan but extended C19 by one room left and rear lean-to and outshut to create service rooms. 2 storeys, over basement at lower end. Irregular 5-window south-west front. Original doorway with 6-pane door and C19 gabled hood with shaped bargeboard. Late C19, 3-light casement over. Other casements of similar date except 1985 French windows inserted in hall window position and 1985 top opening window to right. Window to room left of doorway is wider with 4 lights. Several old casements to rear. Interior: lateral hall fireplace with ashlar jambs and back and rough square timber lintel. Thin chamfered hall ceiling beam. Stud and plaster partition between hall and inner room removed. C19 stairs in widened through-passage. Lateral fireplace at rear of lower room with chamfered timber lintel. Entire roof replaced in C19 and much repaired in C20.
Listing NGR: SS8789003530
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433633
- 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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