Forder Farmhouse
FORDER FARMHOUSE, FORDER LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317141
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Forder Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- FORDER FARMHOUSE, FORDER LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317141
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Forder Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORDER FARMHOUSE, FORDER LANE
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:
- FORDER FARMHOUSE, FORDER LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bovey Tracey
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX8007479991
Details
SX 87 NW BOVEY TRACEY FORDER LANE
5/67 Forder Farmhouse
-
23.8.55
GV II
Ruined farmhouse. Late C17 or C17; possibly medieval basically. Cob and stone,
with occasional brick dressings added in late C19. Roof almost completely collapsed
but a small section of wheatreed thatch remains. Old chimneystack in left-hand
gable, overgrown with creeper. Large stone stack with thatch weatherings and C19
red brick shaft (heating former hall) off-centre to left, aligned with the original
ridge. 3-room and through-passage plan with long unheated room, without internal
communication to the house, at lower end. 2-storeys originally, but only the odd
floor-beam still in position. Windows on road frontage, as far as they survive,
have C19 wood casements. Late C16 or early C17 wood doorframe and door to through-
passage survive; frame is ovolo-moulded with cranked head, plank door with wrought-
iron strap-hinges. Rear door identical, except that frame has a plain chamfer.
Remains of plank-and-muntin screens on both sides of through-passage. The back of
hall stack towards passage is of large granite ashlar blocks, but without plinth or
cornice. Hall has at least one chamfered ceiling-beam. Fireplace has chamfered
wood lintel with well-cut relieving arch over. In upper gable, in room over
parlour, the moulded granite jambs of a former fireplace. 2 side-pegged jointed-
cruck trusses survive, one each side of hall stack; these have straight collars,
butt purlins, and a ridge that seems to be original. Over the passage the remaining
piece of thatch and the common rafters on which it rests, appear to be smoke-
blackened. Formerly listed as having a 'spiral staircase leading from kitchen on
outer wall.'
Listing NGR: SX8007479991
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 84510
- 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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