Bickle Farmhouse
BICKLE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317359
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bickle Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BICKLE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317359
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bickle Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BICKLE 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:
- BICKLE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Swimbridge
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 60727 28050
Details
SWIMBRIDGE SS 62 NW 11/159 Bickle Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Probably early C16, remodelled 1729 (datestone) and extended in C20 to rear. Stone rubble. Slate roof with clay ridge tiles, hipped at right end. Tall brick stack at right end. Brick shaft to lateral rubble stack to rear enclosed in C20 2-storey outshut. Possibly 3-room-and-cross-passage former open hall plan with shippon attached at lower end, now taken in as part of dwelling. 1 1/2 storeys. 4 window range of half dormers with 2-light casements, 8 panes per light. C20 fenestration. 3 doorways, that to centre has stone rubble porch and slated canopy, the porch to right is flanked by buttresses. Small 1729 datestone to left of centre porch. Stopped and moulded beams to room to right of cross-passage, but only roofspace could be closely inspected. From upper end: 3 trusses probably the date of the remodelling with threaded purlins and ridge purl in and lap-jointed collars all clean, a single C16 truss set lower than the rest with some smokeblackening, pierced for purlins and morticed and tenoned collar, another clean truss with trenched purlins and over the shippon an apparently reused blade of a clean cruck truss, the elbow at the head arching over and resting on a straight principal rafter, both pierced for purlins.
Listing NGR: SS6072728050
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 98641
- 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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