Knowle Farmhouse
KNOWLE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317161
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Knowle Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- KNOWLE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317161
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Knowle Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- KNOWLE 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:
- KNOWLE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sourton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 51550 91622
Details
SOURTON SX 59 SW
8/116 Knowle Farmhouse -
GV II
Farmhouse. Circa mid C17, altered in C20. Rendered stone rubble and cob walls. Gable ended asbestos slate roof. Hipped corrugated iron roof to attached shippon. One axial rubble stack with drip-stones and brick shaft. Plan: Originally 3-room plan, the 2 right-hand rooms heated by an axial stack with back to back fireplaces and doorway in front of the stack into a lobby entrance; unheated service room to their left. The shippon at the left end of the building may be integral, with a full height solid wall dividing it from the house, or otherwise is likely to be C18. In the C20 the rooms were partitioned off longitudinally towards towards the rear of the house and an outshut added at its right-hand end. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front with shippon at left-hand end continuous with the house. Windows are mainly later C20 small-paned casements, single light above the door, otherwise 2-light. The 2 left-hand windows are late C19 or early C20. C19 plank door at left end and C20 plank door to right of centre. C20 outshut against right end wall. The shippon has a door at its right end and one to left of centre which has a ventilation slit to its left. There is a small window between the 2 doors and a central first floor loading hatch. Interior: The central room of the house has a fireplace with chamfered wooden lintel which has straight cut stops. Axial chamfered beam without visible stops but its joists are chamfered with straight cut stops. Roughly chamfered axial beam and joists in right-hand room. The fireplace in this room is modern. The shippon has very heavy rough wany cross beams. The roof timbers of the house were completely replaced in the later C20, it was formerly thatched. Over the shippon are rough insubstantial straight principals with lapped collars - probably C19.
Listing NGR: SX5155091622
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 94357
- 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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