Middle Lee Farmhouse
MIDDLE LEE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1289147
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Middle Lee Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MIDDLE LEE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1289147
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Middle Lee Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MIDDLE LEE 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:
- MIDDLE LEE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Molland
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 81970 26830
Details
MOLLAND SS 82 NW 15/56 Middle Lee Farmhouse - II Farmhouse. Probably mid-to late C17, altered in the C18 and remodelled in the late C19 or early C20. Rendered, over stone rubble and cob, stone rubble additions, c.1900 lean-to outshut with red-brick dressings. Gable-ended scantle-slate roof. Stacks with later brick top stages, at gable ends and at rear. Plan and development: 3-room and cross-passage plant facing south. Ground falls to left. Central hall with external lateral stack to rear, former inner room to left with external end stack, and wide former cross passage and service room (present kitchen) to right with integral end stack. Lean-to dairy at rear, probably added in the C18, and staircase inserted in the cross passage, probably in the late C19. 1- storey lean-to addition at right-hand end, probably of the early C20. 2 storeys with 1-storey lean-to addition. Exterior: Asymmetrically-fenestrated front. 5 windows to first floor and 3 to ground floor, early C20 2-and 3-light wooden casements. C20 half-glazed door to cross passage, between first and second windows from right. Lean-to to right with segmental-headed C19 boarded door. Interior: Hall with rough cross-beam, C17 fireplace to rear (reduced) with stone jambs and ovolo-moulded wooden lintel, and C18 cupboards to left-land wall and panelled doors. Former service room (kitchen) to right has pair of plastered deep- chamfered cross beams with old hooks, blocked large old fireplace with plain wooden lintel and probably C18 cupboard to left of fireplace with boarded door and H-L hinges. Left-hand ground floor has fireplace with plain wooden lintel. Front window has continuous jambs to floor level. Dairy in rear lean-to with slate shelves. C18 seven-bay roof with principal-rafter trusses.
Listing NGR: SS8197026830
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 397885
- 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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