Higher Blagrove Farmhouse
HIGHER BLAGROVE FARMHOUSE, BLAGROVE HILL, EX17 4SU
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1305889
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Blagrove Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER BLAGROVE FARMHOUSE, BLAGROVE HILL, EX17 4SU
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- 2004-09-01
- Reference:
- IOE01/13275/03
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1305889
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Blagrove Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER BLAGROVE FARMHOUSE, BLAGROVE HILL, EX17 4SU
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 BLAGROVE FARMHOUSE, BLAGROVE HILL, EX17 4SU
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- East Worlington
- National Grid Reference:
- SS7795817039
Details
SS 71 NE,
4/12
EAST WORLINGTON,
BLAGROVE HILL (off),
Higher Blagrove Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Mid C18. Rubble and cob, rendered and colour-washed, hipped straw-
thatched roof, tall end brick stacks.
PLAN: single room depth; 2 principal rooms at the front, central narrow entrance
hall containing the stairs. Room to left the kitchen, room to right a parlour, at
its back a shallow pantry, consequently the parlour is smaller than the kitchen.
Gabled wing, probably a dairy at right-angles to rear of kitchen.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, symmetrical front, 3 windows, 2-light, late C20 casements,
glazing bars. Central door opening, C20 door.
INTERIOR with central hall with straight-flight staircase, turned newel at the foot,
oak stick balusters, moulded oak handrail, oak treads. Large kitchen to left of
lobby with large gable fireplace with wood bressumer, fitted settle running along 2
walls. Smaller parlour to right of hall with mid C18 wood chimneypiece, bracketed
mantle; extending along rear of the parlour a pantry also reached from the hall, now
featureless. Gabled dairy wing at right-angles to rear much rebuilt, fireplace with
renewed wood bressumer. The Manor of Blagrove is stated to have been mentioned in
the Domesday Book.
Listing NGR: SS7795817039
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 97417
- 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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