KNAWORTHY FARMHOUSE
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1305786
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1988
- Statutory Address:
- KNAWORTHY FARMHOUSE
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- KNAWORTHY FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Frithelstock
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 43453 17750
Details
FRITHELSTOCK
SS41NW
10/97 Knaworthy Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Early C17, with later C17 extension to right.
Colourwashed render over coursed slatestone rubble; gabled Welsh
slate roof; rendered stone ridge stack and external left end
stack. Early C17 one-unit plan with rear outshut; a 2-unit plan
with central lobby-entry was added to the right in the later C17;
the later C17 house evidently consisted of a parlour to left,
central hall and unheated service room to right. 2 storeys;
5-window range. C20 door and porch. Flat rendered arches over
C20 windows. C17 outshut to rear left, heightened in C20 and
adjoining C20 porch. Interior: early C17 section to left, of
one-unit plan with rear outshut, has plaster panel with relief
lettering reading IHTH/1529, chamfered beam and open fireplace
with cloam oven in front room, which also has two C17 chamfered
wooden doorframes to rear outshut; left side of outshut contained
staircase which has been removed; first floor has 3 similar
doorframes, one with ovolo-moulded architrave. Later C17
extension to right; central room, former hall, has stone-flag
floor, roll-stopped beam, scribed joists, open fireplace with
cloam oven and chamfered doorframe to staircase positioned at
rear of stack; chamfered beam in room to right; two C17 A-frame
trusses, with pegged collars (one with open notch-lapped joint)
and ridge purlin set in notched apexes. The early C17 plaster
panel is unusual in having the 1527 date, which may have recorded
an important marriage.
Listing NGR: SS4345317750
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91413
- 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.
End of official listing
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