Thornlands Farmhouse
THORNLANDS FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325892
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Thornlands Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- THORNLANDS FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325892
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Thornlands Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- THORNLANDS 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:
- THORNLANDS FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hockworthy
- National Grid Reference:
- ST0309720967
Details
ST 02 SW
1/73
HOCKWORTHY
Thornlands Farmhouse
GV
II
Farmhouse. Mid C17, possibly earlier origins, C19 dairy extension, the whole place
was thoroughly modernised circa 1980. Plastered stone rubble with some cob,
extension of exposed stone rubble; stone rubble stacks with plastered chimneyshafts;
slate roof, formerly thatch.
Plan and development: L-shaped building. The main block faces north-west and has a
3-room plan. At the left end is an unheated room. The centre room, the
hall/parlour, has an axial stack backing onto the right end kitchen. At the left
end of this room there were opposing doorways (the rear one now blocked) but there
is no evidence that there was ever a passage screen here. The kitchen at the right
end, has a large gable-end stack. The small 1-room projecting in front of the left
room is original. It now contains C20 stairs but is thought to have been the
original stair block. At the right end a C19 2-room plan dairy block projects
forward at right angles. Circa 1980 a corridor was built across the front between
the stairblock and dairy. The C17 farmhouse appears to be of a single build. House
is 2 storeys.
Exterior: irregular 1:2:1-window front of circa 1980 casements with diamond
patterns of leaded glass. The present front doorway is in the centre of the
corridor outshot. It dates from circa 1980 and has a porch of that date. The main
roof and dairy roof are gable-ended. Similar rear fenestration and the left end
includes a bay window of circa 1980, and the whole of this end wall was rebuilt at
this time.
Interior: the 1980 modernisation was thorough but left most of the features,
including the flag floor of the kitchen and most of the oak lintels over the
windows. The unheated left end room has a plain soffit-chamfered crossbeam. The
hall crossbeams are soffit-chamfered with reversed ogee-scroll stops. The fireplace
here has a replacement oak lintel. The kitchen has a large fireplace with a curving
soffit-chamfered oak lintel and the housing of the oven intrudes into the room. The
alcove to right might have been a walk-in curing chamber. The roof was not
inspected although scantling of the bases of the straight principals suggest that
there are C17 A-frame trusses.
Listing NGR: ST0309720967
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95922
- 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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