Lower Chelfham Farmhouse
LOWER CHELFHAM FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325276
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Chelfham Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER CHELFHAM FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325276
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Chelfham Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER CHELFHAM 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:
- LOWER CHELFHAM FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bratton Fleming
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 61505 36055
Details
BRATTON FLEMING SS 63 NW 4/57 Lower Chelfham Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse. C17 or earlier with C19 alterations. Roof raised in C20. Stone rubble and some cob. Brick dressings. Slate roofs with gable ends. Rubble stack at right end with drip and heavy buttress. Brick stack close to ridge to left side. 3 cell cross-passage plan with C17 right-angled projection to rear of cross-passage forming offcentre T-shaped plan. 2-storeys 4-window range of 2-light casements, 12 panes per light to left side, three 2-light casements 6 and 2-panes to right and left sides. Hall window of 3-lights 6-panes per light with timber lintel. Below are 3 bee-boles set into and near base of wall with slate sills. Projecting bread oven to left with slate capping. Corrugated asbestos roof to gabled porch with segmental arched timber lintel. C19 plank door. C17 inner plank door with moulded cover strips. 2 sashes to right of porch with margin glazing bars and cambered brick lintels. Right-angled projection to rear with rendered upper storey has a C17 two- light chamfered mullion window on each floor to east side, that to ground floor has 2-panes per light to right of plank door with stone dripmould. Beams boxed in to hall. Some early joinery survives including a C18 2-panelled door to room to right of cross-passage.
Listing NGR: SS6150536055
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 98536
- 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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