Pidgeon's Farmhouse

PIDGEON'S FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1308763
Date first listed:
21-Apr-1986
List Entry Name:
Pidgeon's Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
PIDGEON'S FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1308763
Date first listed:
21-Apr-1986
List Entry Name:
Pidgeon's Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
PIDGEON'S 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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Location

Statutory Address:
PIDGEON'S FARMHOUSE

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

County:
Devon
District:
East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Woodbury
National Grid Reference:
SY 01409 88537

Details

SY 08 NW WOODBURY ..WOODBURY SALT..ERTON (west side) 2/145 Pidgeon's Farmhouse -II Farmhouse. Early C16 with later alterations and additions. Roughcast cob on stone footings; gabled-end shingle roof. Formerly a 3-room, through-passage plan house, the higher end to the left of the passage. The hall was originally open to the roof for one truncated jointed cruck truss remains, and this is lightly smoke- blackened. An inserted front lateral external stack with off-sets, rendered but probably all of stone with a moulded cap, now heats hall. Inner room was unheated. Service-end not inspected internally, but was probably heated by a now dismantled end stack. 2 storeys. Front: irregular fenestration; all windows with PVC frames are set original embrasures; 1st floor with 2 windows to left of stack, and one ground floor with 2 windows to left of stack and entrance to passage Single storey outbuilding fronts onto service end. Rear, much altered with C20 wing to service end. Interior; hall with one and one half ceiling beam, with composite moulding looks late C16 and one deeply chamfered unstopped beam,. probably C17. Remains jointed cruck over hall, cut off below collar, and lightly sooted.

Listing NGR: SY0140988537

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
88664
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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