PRIESTCOMBE FARMHOUSE INCLUDING ADJOINING FORECOURT WALLS AND COBBLING

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1306119
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1965
List Entry Name:: PRIESTCOMBE FARMHOUSE INCLUDING ADJOINING FORECOURT WALLS AND COBBLING
Statutory Address:: PRIESTCOMBE FARMHOUSE INCLUDING ADJOINING FORECOURT WALLS AND COBBLING

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1306119
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1965
List Entry Name:: PRIESTCOMBE FARMHOUSE INCLUDING ADJOINING FORECOURT WALLS AND COBBLING
Statutory Address 1:: PRIESTCOMBE FARMHOUSE INCLUDING ADJOINING FORECOURT WALLS AND COBBLING

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: PRIESTCOMBE FARMHOUSE INCLUDING ADJOINING FORECOURT WALLS AND COBBLING

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Crediton Hamlets
National Grid Reference:: SS 80036 01698

Details

SS 80 SW CREDITON HAMLETS

3/87 Priestcombe Farmhouse 26.8.65 including adjoining forecourt walls and cobbling

II

Large farmhouse and adjoining cob garden wall to south-east. Probably C16 core, extensively altered in early-mid C17, modernised in late C19. Originally a 3-room- and-through-passage house facing south-east with inner room at left (south-west) end. Dairy wing added at right angles to rear of inner room. Gable-end stacks to service and inner rooms and axial hall stack backing onto passage. In C19 rear of passage blocked by stair. 2 storeys. Regular 5-window front of C19 and C20 casements, most with glazing bars. C19 4-panel front passage door to right of centre. Hall has original volcanic stone chimney shaft raised in C19 with brick. Good interior comprising mostly early-mid C17 features. Only one is possibly earlier, the deeply-chamfered crossbeam with step stops in the service room. The same room has a volcanic stone fireplace with chamfered oak lintel and 3 inserted C19 bread ovens including one of cloam. To its left a disused stair alcove. Hall has large fireplace of veined volcanic ashlar with chamfered oak lintel and 2 crossbeams, chamfered with scroll stops. At upper end the oak plank-and-muntin screen is also chamfered with scroll stops, as too is oak lintel of volcanic ashlar fireplace in inner room which preserves traces of ancient colour in the form of 2 rectangular panels. The first floor has contemporary corridor along rear wall including a chamfered oak door frame with scroll stops to central of 2 inner room chambers. Service room chamber has late C17 coved plaster cornice and contemporary door frames to corridor and former stair alcove which includes an oak 3-light chamfered mullion window frame at this level. 6-bay roof of early-mid C17 oak A- frame trusses of large scantling with dovetail lap-jointed collars. High quality of service end suggests that ground floor fireplace only converted to kitchen after rebuild of rear wing as a dairy and demolition of kitchen stack there. From left end of front, a plastered cob wall on rubble footings with a pitched thatch roof extends south-eastwards alongside front garden. The enclosure is completed by lower stone walls and granite gate posts with small triangular cobbled surface immediately outside gate.

Listing NGR: SS8003601698

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 95188
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.