Westwood Farmhouse
WESTWOOD FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1273422
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Westwood Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WESTWOOD FARMHOUSE
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- Date:
- 2005-06-13
- Reference:
- IOE01/14194/16
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1273422
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Westwood Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WESTWOOD 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:
- WESTWOOD FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hittisleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SX7165995514
Details
SX 79 NW
5/156
HITTISLEIGH
Westwood Farmhouse
GV
II
Farmhouse. C16 with C17 extension and improvements. Plastered cob on rubble
footings; rubble and granite stacks topped with C20 brick; wheat reed thatched
roof. L-shaped building. Gable-ended main block facing north-east has 3-room-and-
through-passage plan with inner room at right (north-west) end and dairy wing added
in C17 to rear of inner room. End stack to service room and axial hall stack
backing onto passage. 2 storeys. Irregular 3-window front of C20 door set left of
centre. Granite ashlar chimney shaft with moulded coping to hall.
Interior: Service room has late C17 rubble fireplace with oak lintel chamfered
with straight cut stops, stone side oven doorway, cloam oven and pitched slate
floor. C19 crossbeam and lower passage screen. C17 oak plank-and-muntin screen
beyond back of hall stack. Large hall fireplace with oak lintel. C16 oak plank-
and-muntin screen at upper end of hall has been moved to end wall of inner room to
create larger space. C16 possibly true cruck truss over hall and C17 A-frame truss
with dovetail-lap collar over service room. Roofspace inaccessible. Rear block
contains dairy with unheated chamber over.
Listing NGR: SX7165995514
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 444887
- 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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