Capitol Farmhouse Including Walls to Garden to the South
CAPITOL FARMHOUSE INCLUDING WALLS TO GARDEN TO THE SOUTH, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325513
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Capitol Farmhouse Including Walls to Garden to the South
- Statutory Address:
- CAPITOL FARMHOUSE INCLUDING WALLS TO GARDEN TO THE SOUTH, WEST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325513
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Capitol Farmhouse Including Walls to Garden to the South
- Statutory Address 1:
- CAPITOL FARMHOUSE INCLUDING WALLS TO GARDEN TO THE SOUTH, WEST STREET
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:
- CAPITOL FARMHOUSE INCLUDING WALLS TO GARDEN TO THE SOUTH, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishop's Nympton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 75720 23743
Details
SS 72 SE BISHOP'S NYMPTON WEST STREET, Bishop's Nympton
6/57 Capitol Farmhouse including walls - to garden to the south
GV II
Farmhouse and garden wall. Farmhouse probably C18 with an earlier rear wing, re- windowed in the C19. Colourwashed rendered stone rubble with a slate roof with deep eaves, gabled at ends; end stacks, projecting lateral stack to rear wing with a bread oven. Late C19. Stone rubble garden wall. Plan: Adjacent to the churchyard and facing the village. Single-depth south-facing main range, 2 rooms wide with heated rooms on either side of a central entrance passage facing the stair. Rear kitchen wing at right angles to the main range with a lower roofline may be earlier. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 4-bay front with a central gabled porch and a C20 2-leaf front door. Porch flanked by C19 16-pane sashes, 4 first floor 2-light C19 or C20 timber casements with glazing bars. The wing has a massive projecting stack on the west elevation with a bread oven. Stone rubble wall to the garden south and west of the farmhouse is probably contemporary with the 1870s planned farmyard to the west. Interior: Open fireplace to left hand room. Roof Not inspected but may be of interest. Group value with the church, churchyard walls and the planned farmyard.
Listing NGR: SS7572023743
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 97589
- 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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