The Thatches and Coolings Farmhouse
THE THATCHES AND COOLINGS FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1306864
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Thatches and Coolings Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- THE THATCHES AND COOLINGS FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1306864
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Thatches and Coolings Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE THATCHES AND COOLINGS 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:
- THE THATCHES AND COOLINGS FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chivelstone
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 78145 36582
Details
CHIVELSTONE EAST PRAWLE SX 73 NE 9/16 The Thatches and Coolings Farmhouse G. V. II
Pair of houses originally probably one house. Circa mid Cl7 extended probably in C18, altered in circa early C20. Colour-washed stone rubble walls. Hipped thatch roof. Brick stack on end wall of The Thatches and axial stack between the 2 houses. Plan: L-shaped plan likely to have been built as one house. The Thatches has a 2-room plan with heated room to the left, the right-hand room was apparently formerly a workshop and only converted in the late C19 or early C20. Coolings extends as a wing from the left-hand end, basically of 2-room plan. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front to The Thatches of mainly C20 casements apart from a late C19 or early C20 6-pane sash window on the 1st floor to left of centre. C20 panelled and glazed door to right of centre. C19 leanto projecting from left-hand end with C20 glazed porch in front. Behind the leanto is the wing forming Coolings Farmhouse which has 2 late C20 single-pane casements to left of the leanto. Its entrance is through an early C20 outshut on its rear wall. Interior: The Thatches has ovolo-moulded ceiling beams in left-hand room and timber winder stairs at the rear.
Listing NGR: SX7814536582
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 100711
- 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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