Staple Farmhouse
STAPLE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309367
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Staple Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- STAPLE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309367
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Staple Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- STAPLE 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:
- STAPLE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dowland
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 57425 10504
Details
DOWLAND SS 51 SE 5/102 Staple Farmhouse II Farmhouse. Circa mid C17 with C20 alterations. Rendered cob walls. Thatch roof, half-hipped to left end, hipped to right end. Axial brick stack. Plan: 3-room plan. Left-hand room unheated, an axial stack between the central and right-hand rooms serves both. It is possible that there may originally have been a baffle entry into a lobby in front of the stack but the entry is now into the larger central room which was the hall, and a C20 staircase has been inserted in front of the stack. C20 leanto added along rear wall. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front of C20 1 and 2-light casements without glazing bars. Large late C20 conservatory/porch along centre of front wall. Interior: right-hand room has fireplace with chamfered wooden lintel which has run- out stops, dressed rubble jambs and shallow shelf at the rear. The central room has rough closely spaced ceiling beams. An original chamfered wooden doorframe with peaked head leads from the central room to the left-hand one. Visible on the 1st floor are the feet of substantial straight principal rafters which may be C17 but further examination was prevented by lack of access to the roof space at time of inspection.
Listing NGR: SS5742510504
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 90890
- 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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