Bourna Farmhouse
BOURNA FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308898
- Date first listed:
- 29-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Bourna Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BOURNA FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308898
- Date first listed:
- 29-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Bourna Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOURNA 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:
- BOURNA FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Meeth
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 54184 10115
Details
MEETH SS 51 SW 1/175 Bourna Farmhouse - - II Farmhouse. Early C16 with C17 alterations and addition. Rendered cob and rubble walls. Thatch roof hipped to left end, gabled to right. Axial rendered, probably rubble, stack and axial brick stack with similar stack at right gable end. Plan: originally 3-room-and-through-passage plan, lower end to the left heated by end stack, as is inner room; hall stack backs onto passage. Hall was initially open to the roof with central hearth, lower and inner rooms may always have been floored. Hall floored and stack inserted in circa early C17. Also probably in the C17 a stable was added at the end of the lower room. Outshuts were built along the rear wall in the circa later C19. Exterior: 2 storeys. Long asymmetrical 4-window front of early to mid C20 2- and 3- light casements, the 2-light ones are small paned. C19 panelled and glazed door to passage at left of centre under doorhood. Outshuts built along rear wall. Interior: on the ground floor the beams are plastered over and early fireplace openings concealed. The original roof survives over the hall, however roof space to lower and inner rooms not accessible and divided from that over hall by full height solid walls. The wall at the lower end of the hall is smoke-blackened and this blackening continues up to the hall truss which has a threaded ridge and morticed apex. To the higher side of the hall truss the soffit of the roof has been plastered up to the inner room wall. This was possibly done in the C17 when the hall was floored and its stack inserted against the truss creating a chamber above. This farmhouse retains a traditional exterior and more internal features probably survive although concealed by later modernisation.
Listing NGR: SS5418410115
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 93290
- 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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