Higher Middlecott Farmhouse
HIGHER MIDDLECOTT FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326022
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Middlecott Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER MIDDLECOTT FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326022
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Middlecott Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER MIDDLECOTT 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:
- HIGHER MIDDLECOTT FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chagford
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX7153586108
Details
SX 78 NW CHAGFORD MIDDLECOTT
4/139 Higher Middlecott Farmhouse
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19.8.87
GV II
House, former farmhouse. C16 or C17, refurbished in late C19-early C20. Plastered
walls, probably granite stone rubble; granite stacks topped with late C19-early C20
brick; thatch roof, slate to extension.
Plan: L-shaped house. The main block faces south-west and is built down a slope.
It has a 3-room-and-through-passage plan with the inner room terraced into the uphill
left (north-western) end. This room has a projecting end stack. The hall has an
axial stack backing onto the passage and the service end room has an end stack.
Because the ground floor has been modernised in the late C19-early C20 and the roof
was not available for inspection at the time of the survey it was impossible to
assess the development of the house. The plan suggests that it was originally an
open hall house and it is tempting to interpret the house as a former Dartmoor
longhouse although the service end room is not as long as the usual shippon. There
is a C19 2-room plan service extension projecting at right angles to rear of the
hall. Now 2 storeys throughout.
Exterior: irregular 4-window front of late C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars,
the left (inner room) one gauzed rather than glazed. The front passage doorway is
right of centre and contains a late C19-early C20 panelled door (a contemporary door
to rear). Immediately to left of it and up is a tiny stair window. Roof is gable-
ended. The inner face of the C19 rear block has a 2-window front flanked by plank
doors. Only the first floor left window is original; a casement containing
rectangular panes of leaded glass. It too is gable-ended and, at the end, there is
an external flight of stone stops to a first floor doorway.
Interior was only available for external inspection at the time of survey and the
ground floor shows only C19 and C20 joinery and plaster. The fireplaces are blocked
by fireplaces of that date and the beams are plastered over. The hall has 2
crossbeams.
Higher Middlecott has a late medieval plan form but it is not known how much of the
early fabric survives.
Listing NGR: SX7153586108
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 94668
- 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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