Little Southdown Farmhouse
LITTLE SOUTHDOWN FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325899
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Little Southdown Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LITTLE SOUTHDOWN FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325899
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Little Southdown Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LITTLE SOUTHDOWN 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:
- LITTLE SOUTHDOWN FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Burlescombe
- National Grid Reference:
- ST0747814937
Details
BURLESCOMBE
ST 01 SE
9/11
Little Southdown Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. C16 and C17, extensively-refurbished in the early C20. Plastered cob
on stone rubble footings; stone rubble and cob stacks topped with C20 brick; slate
roof.
Plan and development: originally a 3-room-and-through-passage plan house facing
south-east. It has an inner room parlour at the left (south-west) end with a
projecting gable-end stack. The hall has an axial stack backing onto the former
passage. The house was somewhat rearranged in the early C20. At this time the
passage lower partition was knocked out and the passage and small unheated service
end room were thrown together making the present kitchen. At the same time a new
stair was inserted into the parlour rising along the hall crosswall and a second
front doorway was inserted directly in front of it. The roof was also replaced and
therefore it is impossible to work out the historic development of the place in any
detail. Nevertheless it seems likely that it began as some form of open hall house,
probably heated by an open hearth fire. The cob hall stack looks like a late C16-
early C17 insertion. The hall was floored about the same time or a little later.
House now 2 storeys.
Exterior: irregular 4-window front of C20 casements without glazing bars. Passage
front doorway is right of centre and now contains a C20 part-glazed door and there
is another similar door further left. Roof is gable-ended. The left (parlour)
gable-end stack includes a stone plaque inscribed WH 1796 although nothing from that
date appears in the house. Alongside is a tiny window which formerly served a
staircase or chamber closet.
Interior: the large parlour originally had a 3-bay ceiling carried on C17
crossbeams with deep soffit-chamfers with step stops. The fireplace here is blocked
by a C20 fireplace. Cob crosswall between parlour and hall. The hall fireplace was
reduced in depth in the C19 but still has its oak lintel supported on posts with a
chamfered surround. The ceiling is 8 panels of richly-moulded intersecting beams.
Joinery detail throughout is C20.
Listing NGR: ST0747814937
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95863
- 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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