Higher Hunstone Farmhouse
HIGHER HUNSTONE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288663
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Hunstone Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER HUNSTONE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288663
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Hunstone Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER HUNSTONE 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:
- HIGHER HUNSTONE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- North Molton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 70482 31326
Details
NORTH MOLTON HUNSTONE SS 73 SW 10/164 - Higher Hunstone Farmhouse II Shown on O.S. maps as Lock's Hunstone Farmhouse. Probably early to mid C17, with late C19 and early C20 alterations and additions. Rendered, over stone rubble to ground floor and cob above. Gable-ended corrugated- asbestos roof (formerly thatched and slated) C19 lean-to addition of uncoursed stone rubble with scantle-slate roof. C17 dressed stone square stack with offsets and weatherings. Rendered C20 brick stack to right. Plan and development: C17 three-room plan, facing south-east. Consisting of principal room to left, small room to centre with passage behind and room to right (present kitchen). Axial stack between left-hand and central rooms and integral end stack to right-hand room. Entrance at right-hand end of left-hand room, with C20 porch. C19 lean-to addition at rear of left-hand end. Roof over right-hand end rebuilt with lower pitch and stack rebuilt, probably in the late C19. Probably C20 lean-to additions to right and to rear of right-hand end. The owner reports (September 1987) that the house formerly extended further to the left. Two storeys, with one-storey lean-to additions. Exterior: Asymmetrically-fenestrated front; late C19 or early C20 two- and 3-light wooden casements, 4 to first floor and 3 to ground floor. Probably early C20 half- glazed door between first and second windows from left, with C20 rendered lean-to porch. Lean-to addition at rear of left-hand part C19 has 2-light leaded wooden casement to right with chamfered frame and mullion, and C19 two- and 3-light wooden casements to left, all with wooden lintels. Interior: Left-hand ground-floor room has C17 deep-chamfered cross beam and C17 dado panelling on left-hand end wall, with moulded top rail. Dog-leg staircase rising from central room. Open fireplace in right-hand ground-floor room (kitchen) has chamfered wooden lintel with stepped runout stops. First-floor rooms and roofspace not inspected.
Listing NGR: SS7048231326
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 398984
- 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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