FARTHING PARK FARMHOUSE INCLUDING COB WALL ADJOINING RIGHT (NORTH-EAST)

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1263350
Date first listed:: 04-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: FARTHING PARK FARMHOUSE INCLUDING COB WALL ADJOINING RIGHT (NORTH-EAST)
Statutory Address:: FARTHING PARK FARMHOUSE INCLUDING COB WALL ADJOINING RIGHT (NORTH-EAST)

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1263350
Date first listed:: 04-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: FARTHING PARK FARMHOUSE INCLUDING COB WALL ADJOINING RIGHT (NORTH-EAST)
Statutory Address 1:: FARTHING PARK FARMHOUSE INCLUDING COB WALL ADJOINING RIGHT (NORTH-EAST)

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:: FARTHING PARK FARMHOUSE INCLUDING COB WALL ADJOINING RIGHT (NORTH-EAST)

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

County:: Devon
District:: Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Morchard Bishop
National Grid Reference:: SS 78505 07336

Details

MORCHARD BISHOP lls 70 NE 5/107 Farthing Park Farmhouse including - cob wall adjoining right (north- east) GV II

Farmhouse. Mid C17. Plastered cob on rubble footings; rubble stacks topped with C19 brick; thatched roof. 2-room with central cross passage plan house facing south-east. Stacks projecting from both gable ends. The principal left (south- west) room is larger than the right. Rear roof carried down over continuous outshots, which contain smaller service rooms and are probably original. Rear stair turret behind cross passage. 2 storeys. Balanced 4 window front of late C19 and C20 casements, the inner two of 2-lights, the outer pair 3-lights. 4 panel front door add C20 gabled and slated-roofed porch is right of centre. Large wall plate is exposed below the eaves. To rear, the stair block has a late C19 horizontal sliding sash with glazing bars. Interior is largely original. Cob full height crosswall to left of passage and room beyond has chamfered and scroll-stopped crossbeam. Right end room has ovolo- moulded and scroll-stopped crossbeam. Both fireplaces of stone rubble with replacement timber lintels. Original roof, 2 bays either side of cob crosswall, and carried on oak A-frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed collars. Left (south- western) truss reuses a sooted jointed cruck principal. Stairs are late C19. A well-preserved single phase farmhouse with an interesting transitional plan. From the right (north-east) end of the frontage and plastered cob wall on rubble footings with pitched pantile roof extends north-eastwards including a square-headed arch and returns forward (south-eastwards) to meet nearby stables (q.v.)

Listing NGR: SS7850507336

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Legacy System number:: 432540
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.