Whitehall Farmhouse
WHITEHALL FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1306407
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Whitehall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WHITEHALL FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1306407
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Whitehall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITEHALL 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:
- WHITEHALL FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Morebath
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 95486 24971
Details
SS 92 SE MOREBATH MOREBATH
6/133 Whitehall Farmhouse -
GV II
Former farmhouse. Circa late C16 or earlier origins, remodelled and probably extended in the mid C17. Whitewashed rendered stone rubble and cob; slate roof (formerly thatched), gabled at ends; 2 axial stacks to main range, end stack to rear wing. Plan: Unusually complex plan. Single depth 3-room plan main block with an unheated room at the left end, and 2 heated rooms at the right end, one on either side of a passage containing a stair. A 1-room plan wing adjoining the front at right angles is unheated; second 1 room plan kitchen wing adjoins the rear right corner of the main range; rear lean-to to main range. The main range is probably the earlier part of the house and could be late medieval in origin, possibly remodelled in the late C16 when the front (dairy) wing could have been added. There appears to have been a substantial remodelling of the circa early/mid C17 when the kitchen wing was added and the left hand of the 2 heated main range rooms was upgraded to a smart parlour. The rear lean-to forms part of this remodelling giving access from the kitchen to the unheated left end room of the main range and providing an axial corridor on the first floor. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front to the main range with a gabled wing to the right and the present front door into the main block to the right of the wing with a slate porch hood, further doorway with similar hood into wing on its right return. To the.-left of the wing the main range has 2-light casement windows with glazing bars, similar first floor casement in gable end of wing. 5-light ground floor window on right return of wing. Interior: Numerous features of interest. The right hand room of the main range has step-stopped cross beams with decorated stops, the centre room has an early C17 decorated plaster ceiling with the remains of a cornice and ornamental motifs; chamfered stopped cross beams to front wing and rear kitchen wing which has an open fireplace with a bread oven and what may be a curing chamber. Good crank-arched timber doorframes to ground and first floor. Roof: Evidence of considerable replacement and remodelling including one probably C17 truss.
Listing NGR: SS9548624971
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 96779
- 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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