Hawkdown Farmhouse
HAWKDOWN FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309388
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Hawkdown Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HAWKDOWN FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309388
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Hawkdown Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HAWKDOWN 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:
- HAWKDOWN 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 58011 10423
Details
DOWLAND SS 51 SE 5/98 Hawkdown Farmhouse II Farmhouse. C17 possibly with earlier origins, modernised in early C20. Plastered cob walls. Thatch roof hipped to left, gabled to right end. 2 brick stacks - one axial towards left-hand end and one at right gable end. Plan: 3-room-and-through-passage plan with lower end to the right heated by gable- end fireplace. Axial stack at higher end of hall also serves inner room. Late C19 or C20 outshut added behind higher end. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 5-window front of 4 C19 3-light casements on 1st floor with C20 3-light casement to their left and also on the ground floor. Early C20 gabled wooden lattic porch to right of centre with C20 plank door behind, 1st floor windows have eyebrows in the thatch above. Interior: fireplace in left-hand room has cambered narrow chamfered wooden lintel. No other original features visible on ground and the 1st floor was inaccessible at the time of survey. Early roof timbers may survive and other features are probably concealed.
Listing NGR: SS5801110423
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 90886
- 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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