Farmbuilding About 20M West of Foxhole Farmhouse
FARMBUILDING ABOUT 20M WEST OF FOXHOLE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317456
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Farmbuilding About 20M West of Foxhole Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- FARMBUILDING ABOUT 20M WEST OF FOXHOLE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317456
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Farmbuilding About 20M West of Foxhole Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- FARMBUILDING ABOUT 20M WEST OF FOXHOLE 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:
- FARMBUILDING ABOUT 20M WEST OF FOXHOLE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Halwill
- National Grid Reference:
- SX4173696981
Details
SX 49 NW
4/68
HALWILL
FOXHOLE
Farmbuilding about 20m west of Foxhole Farmhouse
GV
II
Farmbuilding, the north end formerly used as a detached bake-house and large ash-
house to Foxhole Farm (qv). Probably C18 with C19 modifications. Stone rubble and
cob with a corrugated iron roof gabled at ends. The north end of the building
consists of what was probably a large ash-house with a corbelled roof, the ash
supplied by 2 ovens apparently sharing the same chimney. One of the ovens is lined
with brick and may be an addition or modification of the C19. In the circa early C20
the stack was dismantled when the building was adapted as a cartshed. Single storey.
2 large rough openings on the east side are probably early C20, a doorway on the
north gable end leads into the ash-house.
Interior A stone rubble wall across the short length of the building divides the
ash- and bake-house from the rest of the building. A blocked opening with a timber
lintel in the wall gave access to the ash-house, a wider lower opening under a timber
lintel in the wall leads to the bake ovens. The 2 bake ovens are on a raised stone
rubble base, 1 has a triangular headed freestone opening and a neatly corbelled stone
internal structure with a course of granite at the base, the second oven is brick-
lined. A doorway with a timber lintel leads directly from the bake-house into the
large ash-house which has a neatly corbelled conical stone roof with a small circular
hole at the apex. Ashes from the bake-house were probably transferred directly into
the ash-house for storage before being taken to the fields through the door in the
north gable end of the building. A very unusual survival of a combination building
of bake- and ash-house, the internal construction of the ash-house is particularly
fine.
Listing NGR: SX4173696981
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 90770
- 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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