Woodend Farmhouse

WOODEND FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1308548
Date first listed:
21-May-1985
List Entry Name:
Woodend Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
WOODEND FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1308548
Date first listed:
21-May-1985
List Entry Name:
Woodend Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
WOODEND 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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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:
WOODEND FARMHOUSE

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

County:
Devon
District:
South Hams (District Authority)
Parish:
Staverton
National Grid Reference:
SX 74875 68700

Details

SX 76 NW STAVERTON Woodend Farmhouse

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- II*

Farmhouse and shippon. Circa early C16 or earlier. Whitewashed stone rubble. Slurried slate roof with gabled higher end (right) and hipped lower end (left). Early crested ridge tiles along complete length of roof except for lower end. Three room and through a cross passage plan. Rear lateral hall stack, gable end stack heating inner room and floor inserted into hall in circa late C16. Hall front wall brought forward in line with stair turret on front circa C17. Lower end rebuilt or partly rebuilt circa C17 to C18. Later rear outshuts.

One and half storeys. The house is a four window range. Two, three and four-light casements with glazing bars. One small single-light window to left hand of first floor. Two dormers, one with raking roof, the other gabled and with pigeon holes. The left hand passage doorway has plank door.

Shippon at lower end has loft door over small window and three pigeon holes below the eaves. Later outshuts at rear.

Interior: one main lateral beam and two half beams, chamfered with large step stops in hall. Solid wall between hall and inner room with cranked head chamfered timber doorframe. Newel stairs at front of lower end of hall. Heavy plank and muntin screen with mason's mitres between hall and passage. Heavy square-section beams in passage. Roof space inaccessible. Hall fireplace blocked.

A good example for late medieval farmhouse largely unaltered since C18.

Listing NGR: SX7487568700

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
100641
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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