Stoverlake Farmhouse

STOVERLAKE FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1307156
Date first listed:
28-Jul-1989
List Entry Name:
Stoverlake Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
STOVERLAKE FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1307156
Date first listed:
28-Jul-1989
List Entry Name:
Stoverlake Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
STOVERLAKE 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
STOVERLAKE FARMHOUSE

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

County:
Devon
District:
South Hams (District Authority)
Parish:
Aveton Gifford
National Grid Reference:
SX6821448749

Details

SX 64 NE
4/19

AVETON GIFFORD
ASHFORD
Stoverlake Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. C17, modified and C20 wing. Rendered or painted rubble, Spanish
slate roof. A former 3-room cross-passage plan with stair flanking fireplace; a
gabled wing added to back now forming T-plan. Set gable to road, a 2-storey,
3-window front to south with 2-light glazing bar casements in deep reveals, and
door under pent slate roof between windows 2 and 3 at cross-passage. Left end
has large lean-to. Gable stacks. Back wing not of special interest. Interior:
narrow cross-passage with thin partition each side and stone floor. Left room
has good bressummer fire and bread oven, wood spiral stair includes a blocked
window opening; chamfered and stopped ceiling joists and large transverse beam.
A second stair at back. Many thin plank doors, that under stair with early
hinges. A-frame roof; the gable to road shows that roof has been raised at some
stage. Although much restored, with C20 windows, the fabric still retains much
of historic interest.

Listing NGR: SX6821448749

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
99461
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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