East Hole Farmhouse
EAST HOLE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325482
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1976
- List Entry Name:
- East Hole Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- EAST HOLE FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325482
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1976
- List Entry Name:
- East Hole Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- EAST HOLE 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:
- EAST HOLE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Knowstone
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 82509 23056
Details
KNOWSTONE KNOWSTONE SS 82 SW 3/29 East Hole Farmhouse - 6.6.76 - II Farmhouse. Probably late C17. Rendered stone rubble and cob. Hipped thatch roof. Brick stack at each end and rendered rear lateral stone rubble hall stack with offsets, heightened in brick. Corrugated iron roof, hipped at front end to outbuilding attached at left end. Plan: 3-room-and-cross-passage plan, with straight run staircase filling the passage. Lower end parlour to right. Hall to left with long inner room probably originally a kitchen but divided to form a dairy between the hall and kitchen proper. There was originally a passage to the front of the dairy connecting the 2 rooms but this was removed in C20 and the kitchen is used as a service room/lobby. Small outbuilding probably originally a cider house, attached at right angles to front left end forming overall L-shaped plan. Exterior: 2 storeys. 3-window range. 3-light casements on each floor, C19 fenestration but leaded lights replaced in C20 to upper storey, 8 panes per light to ground floor. C20 door. Interior: mostly remodelled in C20 but C18 2 panelled door to cupboard under stairs survives. Ceiling beams replaced in C20 but joists are probably C17. Hall fireplace lintel replaced in C20. C19 chimneypiece to kitchen fireplace. Thin lath and plaster partitions on each side of cross-passage. Roof structure: consists of straight prinicipals with pegged lapped collars. No sign of smoke-blackening.
Listing NGR: SS8250923056
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 97380
- 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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