Great Pit Farmhouse
GREAT PIT FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1306664
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Great Pit Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT PIT FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1306664
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Great Pit Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREAT PIT 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:
- GREAT PIT FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Silverton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 95213 03312
Details
SILVERTON SS 90 SE 7/216 Great Pit Farmhouse - GV II* Farmhouse. C15 with later alterations. Cob, stone footings, plastered, under gabled-end slate roof. Formerly a 3-room, through-passage plan, with continuous rear outshut under catslide roof, and with a later (C19) left hand extension. Left-hand external stack with bake-oven bulge (partially engulfed in C19 extension) and right- hand external stack with 2 off-sets heat service end and parlour respectively; hall heated by rear lateral stack. All with brick shafts. 2-storeys. Front: 5-window range, the roof ridge of the left-hand extension lower than that of- the main house; all windows of 3-light, C19 casements. 4 similar 3-light windows to ground floor. All windows retain glazing bars. Front door (to passage) under lean- to slate porch. C19 and C20 windows to rear. Interior: Plank and muntin screens stand to either side of the through-passage, chamfered, stopped and with carpenter's mitres, with chamfered brackets supporting bressumer in parlour. The doors through these screens are late C17 or early C18, one (to parlour) with large fielded panels. Parlour with 3 axial beams with run out stops. Roof: 5 jointed crucks, pegged and morticed at apex; cranked collars; threaded purlins; diagonal ridge piece; smoke blackened from end to end with some sooted rafters over the service end. The hall (with through-passage) is of 2 bays, the trusses to each end formerly closed, the central upright to each sooted. Note: according to J H Ward (Trans. Devonshire Association, 42 (1910), 283 this house possessed 'a very interesting plaster ceiling with sporting subjects, possibly of 1610'. The present occupier (March, 1985) believes there to be a fine 'painted' ceiling above the parlour (right-hand) room chamber: it is possible that the ceiling noticed by Ward still survives concealed.
Listing NGR: SS9521303312
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95402
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions of the Devonshire Association in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, Vol. 42, (1910), 283
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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