Town Farmhouse
TOWN FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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
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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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 97439
- 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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