Higher Westacombe Farmhouse
HIGHER WESTACOMBE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309003
- Date first listed:
- 29-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Westacombe Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER WESTACOMBE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309003
- Date first listed:
- 29-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Westacombe Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER WESTACOMBE 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:
- HIGHER WESTACOMBE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Inwardleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 55435 98916
Details
INWARDLEIGH SX 59 NE 10/140 Higher Westacombe Farmhouse - - II Farmhouse. Probably incorporates early C16 fabric but present form and accessible features are of early C17 date. Rendered cob walls. Corrugated iron and asbestos roof, gabled to right hipped to left. Brick stack at right gable end and axial rubble stack with brick shaft. Plan: 2-room and through passage plan, lower end to the right, projecting 2 storey hall bay and. wing to rear of hall. Hall stack backs onto passage. It is unclear whether the rear wing is a later addition or integral - the ground rises steeply beyond the hall and possibly a rear wing was incorporated into the plan in place of an inner room because of this. Outshut added in front of lower room probably as an outbuilding. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 1-window front with leanto in front of right- hand side. 2-storey gabled hall window bay projects to left of centre with C19 casements - 2-light above and 3-light below, some lights are leaded. C19 plank door at centre with semi-circular oven projection to its left. On inner face of outshut is re-used circa early C16 shouldered head wooden frame. Wing extends behind left- hand end. Interior only partly accessible - hall has open fireplace with chamfered wooden lintel which has straight-cut stops. Chamfered cross beams in hall and rear wing. It is probable that more original features are concealed and the roof timbers may also be of interest.
Listing NGR: SX5543598916
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 93252
- 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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