Planned Farmyard at Wellparks
PLANNED FARMYARD AT WELLPARKS, EXETER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297273
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Planned Farmyard at Wellparks
- Statutory Address:
- PLANNED FARMYARD AT WELLPARKS, EXETER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297273
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Planned Farmyard at Wellparks
- Statutory Address 1:
- PLANNED FARMYARD AT WELLPARKS, EXETER ROAD
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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:
- PLANNED FARMYARD AT WELLPARKS, EXETER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Crediton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 84436 99587
Details
CREDITON
SX89NW EXETER ROAD 672-1/2/47 (North side) Planned farmyard at Wellparks
GV II
Estate planned farmyard, part of the Downes estate. Circa 1840. Flemish bond brick on local volcanic trap footings; slate roofs. Plan: Double-courtyard plan, with narrower north yard. South yard, South Range is an 8-bay linhay, weatherboarded below the loft with large chamfered posts to the bays. King post and strut roof, some of the struts removed, or perhaps never used. The west range is a similar 9-bay linhay with a C20 addition on the front to the north. Beyond the linhay a 2-storey brick building with brick-coped gables, probably a granary, with a segmental-headed doorway into the yard and a loft door over. The north range consists of pigsties with brick walls in front, with a monopitch pantile roof and a rounded corner. The east rnage includes, to the south, an archway from the lane into the lower yard. To the north, a 4-bay barn with opposed doorways with brick cheeks. 5 bay stable to north with door to left, 4 ground floor windows, a central loft door and 4 first floor windows. North Yard. This has a 2-bay open-fronted linhay on the east side. The north range consists of a 3-storey block. On the first floor a lofted barn, built into the slope of the land, with the remains of a horse engine house to the rear (north) with granite columns. The ground floor of the front elevation (under the threshing barn) has 2 windows at the left end and 4 segmental headed doorways to the right, with 2 storeys of doors and windows above. A slot in the right (east) end of the barn has a shaft for driving machinery, presumably from a steam or petrol mechanism. A particularly large and grand example of a planned farmyard, unusual for Devon.
Listing NGR: SX8443699587
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386996
- 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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