Apridge Farmhouse

APRIDGE FARMHOUSE, APRIDGE LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1317988
Date first listed:
09-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
Apridge Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
APRIDGE FARMHOUSE, APRIDGE LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1317988
Date first listed:
09-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
Apridge Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
APRIDGE FARMHOUSE, APRIDGE LANE

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
APRIDGE FARMHOUSE, APRIDGE LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Devon
District:
Teignbridge (District Authority)
Parish:
Doddiscombsleigh
National Grid Reference:
SX 85431 87165

Details

DODDISCOMBSLEIGH APRIDGE LANE SX 88 NE 3/121 Apridge Farmhouse II Farmhouse. Circa early C17. Whitewashed rendered cob and stone;thatched roof, hipped at left end, half-hipped at right end, hipped end to wing ; left end stack with rendered shaft, back to back fireplaces in stack with granite shaft between wing and main range. Plan: L plan, the main range single depth, 2 rooms wide, both rooms heated ; rear right kitchen wing at right angles to main range with fireplace back to back with right hand room ; stair in projection in rear left angle between main range and wing; lean-to adjoining inner wall of rear wing. The position of the original entrance is unclear : there is an entrance on the front at the right which is said formerly to have led into a very narrow passage-like dairy, entrance into wing on right return. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3 window front with 2 buttresses on the front : plank and stud door at right end. Fenestration of C20 timber casements with glazing bars. The right return of the main block has a C17 4-light mullioned window on the ground floor and 1 small first floor window. The right return continues (the wing) with the eaves thatch eyebrowed over 1 first floor 2-light casement ; 2 similar casements to right of C20 porch into wing. Interior: Chamfered crossbeam and exposed joists to kitchen wing which is divided between the kitchen and a narrow rear service room. Open fireplace with granite jambs chamfered lintel and bread oven. The right hand room of the main block has a fireplace back to back with the kitchen fireplace, with granite jambs and a chamfered step-stopped lintel. The left hand room has a chamfered step-stopped half-beam at the left end, C20 fireplace possibly concealing earlier features: 2-light chamfered mullioned stair window, now internal. Roof: Apex not inspected at time of survey (1987) but 3 jointed cruck side-pegged trusses survive over the main block : principal rafters over the wing are straight.

Listing NGR: SX8543187165

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
85642
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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