Hillfield Farmhouse

HILLFIELD FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1325158
Date first listed:
25-Mar-1991
List Entry Name:
Hillfield Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
HILLFIELD FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1325158
Date first listed:
25-Mar-1991
List Entry Name:
Hillfield Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
HILLFIELD 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.

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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:
HILLFIELD FARMHOUSE

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

County:
Devon
District:
South Hams (District Authority)
Parish:
Stoke Fleming
National Grid Reference:
SX 83205 51026

Details

STOKE FLEMING SX85SW Hillfield Farmhouse 2/129 II

Farmhouse. Circa 1840 with later C19 addition. Local slate rubble, slate hung above first floor level. Single span slate roof with gabled ends, overhanging verges and moulded cast-iron gutters. Rendered gable end stacks with clay pots. Plan: Double depth plan with 2 principal rooms at the front and a central entrance passage between leading to a dog-leg staircase at the back. The back rooms were probably service rooms. The wing set back at an obtuse angle to the left is probably a later C19 addition and has a loft above now incorporated into the house accommodation. There is a single storey and attic outshut on the right hand side behind which there is a C19 farm build- ing converted in the C20 into a pair of cottages. Exterior: 2 storeys and attic. Symmetrical 3-window west front, centre first floor windows behind. The window openings with 2-centred arch heads have C19 casements with glazing bars and Gothic glazing bars in the window heads. The first floor windows have slate sills and the ground floor open- ings have dressed stone arches. Central doorway with similar stonework with blind fanlight and C19 flush panel door, the top panel glazed and a later C19 or early C20 brick porch with a hipped slate roof. Similar but smaller Gothic casement attic windows in the gable ends. Set back at the right hand end a l-storey and attic outshut with a lean-to slate roof. Set back at the left hand end a low 2-storey wing with a hipped slate roof extends to the rear where there is a loft doorway and external stone stairs. The rear elevation of the main range has Gothic pointed sash windows and a large stair sash with a similar pointed arch head. The back doorway to the left also has a similar pointed arch and a fanlight, Interior: was not inspected but a dog-leg staircase with thick balusters was observed.

Listing NGR: SX8320551026

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

Legacy System number:
99914
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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