Road Farmhouse
ROAD FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325614
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Road Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ROAD FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325614
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Road Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROAD 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:
- ROAD FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Colebrooke
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 74386 97733
Details
COLEBROOKE SX 79 NW 4/81 - Road Farmhouse
- II
Farmhouse. Late C16-early C17 origins, extensively refurbished and enlarged in mid C19. Plastered cob on exposed rubble footings; stone rubble stacks topped with C19 brick; slate roof. South-east facing main block has an altered 3-room-and-through-passage plan with inner room at right (north-eastern) end. Inner room has end stack, hall has axial stack backing onto passage and service end room has rear lateral stack. From each end mid C19 service blocks project at right angles and on left end is a C20 extension. Service end rear block has end stack. 2 storeys. Regular but not symmetrical 4-window front of mid C19 sashes. On the first floor, left of centre and over the door, is a 20-pane (8/12) sash. The rest are 25-pane (10/15) sashes and those on ground floor have late C19-early C20 external plank shutters. The doorway now contains a C20 door behind a contemporary gabled and slate-roofed porch. Low pitch roof is hipped each end. The outshot contains casements some with glazing bars. Both rear blocks are gable-ended. Interior: shows mostly C19 joinery detail and plaster but some earlier features are exposed in the main house. The service end room has a late C16-early C17 hollow chamfer and ovolo moulded crossbeam with no stops and the contemporary stone fireplace in the back wall has a soffit-chamfered and step stopped intel. The hall has a C17 rubble fireplace with a cambered, soffit-chamfered oak lintel resting on oak pads. Other early features probably survive behind later plaster. Roof of Cl9 king post trusses throughout.
Listing NGR: SX7438697733
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 96597
- 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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