Thorne Farmhouse
THORNE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317832
- Date first listed:
- 14-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Thorne Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- THORNE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317832
- Date first listed:
- 14-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Thorne Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- THORNE 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:
- THORNE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Holsworthy Hamlets
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 30854 05841
Details
SS30NW HOLSWORTHY HAMLETS CP
10/42 Thorne Farmhouse
14.2.58 II
Manor chapel, now farmhouse. C14 chapel enlarged subsequently as dwelling, reroofed, largely refenestrated and extended late C20. Render over rubble, shallow pitch slate roof, brick stacks gable ends of main block. Plan: east end of chapel and entrance, west end probably rebuilt, south wing added, and north-west and south-west lean-to additions. North front: 2 storeys, 4 bays, all windows late C20 reconstituted stone Tudor-style except for end bay left which has full-height pointed arch 2-light cinquefoil-headed window, mullion renewed; to right noulded pointed arch doorway with hoodmould, 2-light window above with 3- and 2-lights to right on both floors; 2 storey, one bay lean-to addition lit on re-entrant angle only with 2-light windows end bay right. East gable end unlit but remains of part of window said to have been found in wall during restoration: no longer visible. South front: the only window opening of interest is full- height pointed arched 2-light window without cusping, chamfered rere arch. Interior: late 20, north-east window is cut internally by floor, large open fireplace in the south wing gable end. Roof trusses said to have been replaced in C20. It is not clear whether the west end of the chapel survives within the farmhouse or not. The chapel was probably used as a farmbuilding during the C18 and C19 when most of its features were presumably lost. The manor house was destroyed by fire in the mid C19 and the chapel then became a dwelling. It was licenced in 1377, 1381 and 1400. (Leeson Day, Holsworthy, The Devonshire Association Parochial Histories, 1934)
Listing NGR: SS3102305780
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91947
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Day, Leeson, Devonshire Association Parochial Histories in Holsworthy, (1934)
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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