Hollis Farmhouse
HOLLIS FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325857
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Hollis Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HOLLIS FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325857
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Hollis Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOLLIS 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:
- HOLLIS FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kentisbeare
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 08328 08475
Details
ST 00 NE KENTISBEARE 8/78 Hollis Farmhouse 5.4.66 II 2 dwellings, formerly a single farmhouse. Early C19, but retaining some C17 work. Roughcast cob on stone plinth; hipped slate roof with lead rolls to hips and ridge. Central staircase plan with principal rooms to either side of the entrance hall, and 2 rear service wings, 1 of which is largely C17 and all that remains of the earlier house. Probably quite early on in the C19 the house was divided into 2 dwellings, with a second entrance added to the right-hand side which gives access to a stairhall inserted into the rear of one of the principal rooms. End stacks heat principal rooms. 2 storeys. Exterior Front: symmetrical 3 window range; first floor with central round-headed horned sash window, 9 panes above, 8 below, flanked by 16 pane hornless sash windows. Ground floor: central porch with moulded canopy on simple posts, panelled reveals and soffit to round headed doorway, panelled door with semi-circular fanlight. Horned sash windows to either side, 12 panes above, 8 below. Overhanging eaves. Irregular fenestration to side elevations, that to left hand side entirely C20. Interior. Some early features survive in one of the rear wings, namely a chamfered ceiling beam with run-out stops, a lintel to a former end fireplace and a re-used ovolo-moulded stone jamb.
Listing NGR: ST0832808475
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95733
- 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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