Cleave Farmhouse
CLEAVE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1305918
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Cleave Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CLEAVE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1305918
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Cleave Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLEAVE 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:
- CLEAVE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lapford
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 75337 10546
Details
LAPFORD SS 71 SE 2/60 - Cleave Farmhouse - II
Farmhouse. Mid C17. Plastered cob on rubble footings; rubble stacks, 1 with original rubble chimney stack, the other topped with C20 brick; slate roof (formerly thatch). 2-room plan house facing south-east with parlour at right (north-east) end with slightly projecting rear lateral stack and kitchen-service room at left (south-west) end with projecting front lateral stack. 2 storeys. 3- window front of early C20 casements with glazing bars vaguely balanced around contemporary door; all set right of kitchen/service stack which includes slate- roofed oven projection and its original chimney shaft. Roof is hipped to right and half-hipped to left. Interior is largely original. Right end parlour has ogee-moulded and scroll-stopped crossbeam with exposed scratch-moulded beams. Parlour fireplace oak lintel removed after fire of circa 1950 but is kept in nearby barn; it has ovolo moulding with scroll stops and a secondary inscription recording the initials IP (the P is the wrong way round) and date 1698. Kitchen/service room has a plain-chamfered axial beam and fireplace has been rebuilt. Roof not inspected.
Listing NGR: SS7533710546
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 96511
- 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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