TOWN FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1325475
Date first listed:: 14-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: TOWN FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: TOWN FARMHOUSE

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Date:: 2004-06-19
Reference:: IOE01/12507/32
Rights:: © Mr Hedley R. Hooper. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1325475
Date first listed:: 14-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: TOWN FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: TOWN FARMHOUSE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: TOWN FARMHOUSE

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

County:: Devon
District:: North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: East Worlington
National Grid Reference:: SS7700313552

Details

EAST WORLINGTON WEST WORLINGTON SS 71 SE 8/34 Town Farmhouse - GV II Farmhouse. Early C17, some C19 remodelling with refenestration. Rubble and cob, roughcast; gabled corrugated asbestos roof; 2 brick ridge stacks and a rendered lateral stack at front capped by a brick shaft. Plan: probably originally a 3-room and through-passage plan, large inner room to left with an axial stack, hall with front lateral stack and an integral hall bay of 2 storeys, lower end to right rebuilt. The through-passage now gone. Inner room to left altered C19 with the insertion of a door opening and partitioning to form a narrow lobby out of which rises a C19 staircase, the original staircase to the house now removed. A C19 service room at the lower (right) end with an axial stack and unheated store beyond it. Outbuilding added at higher end. Exterior: 2 storeys, asymmetrical front of 3:3:1 windows, 2- and 3-light late C19 casements, mostly with horizontal glazing bars. Door opening to left into the former inner room with a late C19 half-glazed door, door opening to right into lower room with plank door. Interior: on the ground floor large chamfered ceiling cross beams with straight-out stops, hall with simple framed ceiling; plank and muntin screen between hall and inner room, presently obscured by C20 partitioning, blocked remains of a doorway. All fireplaces blocked with C20 grates inserted. Roof: evidence of a raised cruck seen in the roof, trusses with 2 rows of purlins.

Listing NGR: SS7700313552

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Legacy System number:: 97439
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.