Bowden Farmhouse
BOWDEN FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1292907
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Bowden Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BOWDEN FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1292907
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Bowden Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOWDEN 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:
- BOWDEN FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Buckland in the Moor
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX7269873673
Details
BUCKLAND-IN-THE-MOOR
SX 77 NW
6/36 Bowden Farmhouse
23.8.55
GV II*
Longhouse. Late medieval with additions. Granite rubble. Slated roof, half-hipped
at right-hand end; front slope of roof of house part thatched. Granite chimney with
thatch weatherings and tapered top on centre of ridge. Old chimney with thatch
weatherings on left-hand gable. C18 granite chimney with attached brick shaft in
rear wall, off centre to right. Plan has through-passage with hall and inner room
to left, kitchen and shippon to right; the kitchen clearly occupies one end of the
original shippon. Hall fireplace backs on to through-passage; kitchen fireplace is
in rear wall. C18 or C19 entrance porch with chamfer over. 2 storey, with single-
storey additions. House part is 3 windows wide; C20 wood and metal casements without
glazing bars. Entrance-porch is gabled with decorative slate-hanging on the verges;
shouldered-head wood inner doorway, probably medieval encased in C19 panels. To
left of porch a shallow rectangular projection with pent roof, possibly a former
stair turret. Shippon to right has 2 ventilation slits, the left-hand slit blocked
to insert kitchen. Lean-to linhay, its posts now infilled with stone rubble, in
front of left-hand side of shippon. Projecting at right-angles from right-hand side
a range of pigsties.
Interior has preserved its C19 atmosphere remarkably well, with most of the old
plaster wall-surfaces; few early features exposed, although these are likely to
exist. Roof trusses have short curved feet; roof space not accessible.
Listing NGR: SX7269873673
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 85236
- 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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