Lower Davis Farmhouse
LOWER DAVIS FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325295
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Davis Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER DAVIS FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325295
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Davis Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER DAVIS 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 DAVIS FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stoke Rivers
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 63198 35309
Details
STOKE RIVERS STOKE RIVERS SS 63 NW 4/158 Lower Davis Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Probably 1630. Much altered and extended in C19. Whitewashed rendered stone and cob. Gable ended slate roofs, some brick to rear. Possibly originally 3 cells in line, but at an early date the lower end must have been demolished and rebuilt to rear to form rough T-shaped plan with rendered lateral front stack to hall with slated offsets and stack at right gable end heating inner room with oversailing brick courses to the cap. To the rear at right angles to these 2 principal rooms is the service range with a gable end rendered rubble stack and also heats the stable block, rebuilt in brick projecting to the left to rear of the service wing. 2 back-to-back outshuts with slated lean-to roofs to central valley in the angle of inner room and service wing. 2-storeys. 2 sashes to facade with marginal glazing bars above C19 window of 3-lights 8-panes per light. Interior: C17 ovolo-moulded beams and fireplace lintel to hall and scroll-stopped beam to inner room. Plank door to rear carved 1855. C17 plasterwork to chamber (now bathroom) above inner room comprising a T-shaped plasterwork tablet with triangular base. Single central palmette with "James and Marie Joce" across the shoulders and "1630" with "R & M" in the base.
Listing NGR: SS6319835309
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 98640
- 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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