Holmbush Cottage
HOLMBUSH COTTAGE, BALLS FARM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317203
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Holmbush Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- HOLMBUSH COTTAGE, BALLS FARM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317203
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Holmbush Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOLMBUSH COTTAGE, BALLS FARM ROAD
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:
- HOLMBUSH COTTAGE, BALLS FARM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Exeter (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 90243 90841
Details
IDE BALLS FARM ROAD, Ide SX 99 SW
2/62 Holmbush Cottage -
GV II
House. C17 or earlier origins, circa early C19 remodelling. Whitewashed rendered cob and stone; thatched roof, hipped at right end, gabled at left end; left end stack with brick shaft, 2 rear lateral stacks. Single depth plan, 3 rooms wide, with a through passage to left of centre (doorways blocked), and a second passage to right of centre containing a circa early C19 stair. The C17 plan was probably a 2 or 3 room and through passage arrangement; 2 hood moulds on the rear wall indicate the position of the passage doorway and a large window which formerly lit the left hand room. The house was remodelled and probably re-roofed beyond the left hand room in the circa early C19 when it was provided with a new entrance passage between the 2 right hand rooms, with a stair to the rear of the passage. The 2 right hand rooms are each heated from internal rear lateral stacks. The old passage was turned into a narrow service room and the front and rear doorways blocked; these alterations may have taken place over a long period of time. A stair which may also be C19 is against the rear wall of the left hand room, C20 single-storey lean-to at left end. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4 window front with regular fenestration and eaves thatch eyebrowed over the first floor windows (1 window blocked). C19 front door to C19 passage to right of centre with brick buttresses on either side. Single-storey flat- roofed store room to left of centre adjoins main range in front of the old cross passage. 2-light casement windows, 2 panes per light, the ground floor windows transomed. Interior: The left hand room has 2 chamfered cross beams with scroll slops, C20 grate may conceal an earlier fireplace. C18 and C19 joinery includes an early C19 stair with stick balusters and a ramped handrail. No access to roof space at time of survey (1986) and the visible principal rafters boxed in but, judging from their shape, there is a cruck over the left end of the house and the other trusses are later replacements. There is a possibility that the left hand truss could pre-date the C17.
Listing NGR: SX9024390841
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 85479
- 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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