Synocks Farmhouse
SYNOCKS FARMHOUSE, NORTH TOWN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309645
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Synocks Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SYNOCKS FARMHOUSE, NORTH TOWN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309645
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Synocks Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SYNOCKS FARMHOUSE, NORTH TOWN
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:
- SYNOCKS FARMHOUSE, NORTH TOWN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Petrockstow
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 51097 09787
Details
PETROCKSTOWE NORTH TOWN, Petrockstowe SS 50 NW 8/54 Syncocks Farmhouse - - II Farmhouse. Circa mid C17 with later C17 additions. Mainly plastered cob and rubble walls. Thatch roof gabled to right end, hipped to left and front wing. Brick stack at right gable end and 1 axial on front wing. Plan: originally likely to have had 2-room plan, right-hand room heated. Probably later in C17 it was extended by 1 room at the left-hand end and a 1-storey wing added at the front of it of which the end room is an outbuilding and the inner room heated. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2-window front of C20 2 and 3-light casements with C19 plank door at centre. This is under a corrugated iron roofed pentice porch which extends as far as the 1-storey wing projecting from the left end of the house which has a plank door on its inner face and door and outbuilding window on end wall. Interior: not fully accessible but 1 chamfered axial beam visible to inner room of wing. Other beams and features such as open fireplaces and early roof timbers may also survive.
Listing NGR: SS5109709787
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91028
- 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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