East Leigh Farmhouse
EAST LEIGH FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325041
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- East Leigh Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- EAST LEIGH FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325041
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- East Leigh Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- EAST LEIGH 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:
- EAST LEIGH FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Harberton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 76540 57983
Details
HARBERTON SX75NE EAST LEIGH 5/406 East Leigh Farmhouse
11.11.52
GV II
Farmhouse. Circa C16 or early C17 with later wings at rear. Rendered stone rubble. First floor of front slate hung. Slate roof with gabled ends. Rendered chimney stacks at gable ends and rear lateral hall stack with slate weathering. Plan: 3 room and through passage plan, the lower end to the right, rear lateral hall stack and gable end stacks serving inner room and kitchen at lower end. 2 storey porch to front of passage. Short wing at rear of higher end and two further adjoining wings in the angle behind the hall and passage with an outshut on the lower side in the angle. C19 stairs inserted into back of passage. Exterior: 2 storeys. 4 to 5 window range with 2 storey gabled porch to right of centre with chamfered rounded arch of slate voussoirs and with slate sundial in gable above dated 1671 and with initial W. Inner doorway has good heavy ovolo and a hollow moulded doorframe with vase stops, nail-studded plank door with covermoulds and wrought iron hinges and timber lintel with ogee stops. C20 2 and 3-light casement windows with glazing bars; first floor windows are half dormers with raking roofs. At rear 3 adjoining gabled wings to right, the centre with 3-ligh timber window with square-section mullions and iron stanchions. Later outshut in left hand engle. Late C20 glazed conservatory on lower left end. Interior: Plank and muntin screens on either side of passage with scratch mouldings to muntin, the screen doorway widened. C19 dog-leg staircase inserted into back of passage with stick balusters and passage back doorway blocked. Blocked hall fireplace. Lower room, former kitchen has fireplace at lower end with massive unchamfered lintel and oven and 2 cross-beams with rough chamfers. Wing at rear of higher end has chamfered beams with bar stops and wing behind passage has chamfered fireplace lintel. Stud partition on first floor to chamber over porch and doorway with stopped chamfer jambs. Doorway in partition at lower end of chamber over hall has ovolo moulded jambs with ogee stops, the doorhead removed. Some of the original roof tursses survive. They have straight principals with threaded purlins and notched lap joints for the now missing collars. Some of the purlins and the diagonal ridgepiece is also missing and all the rafters have been replaced. Original truss over porch.
Listing NGR: SX7654057983
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 101310
- 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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