Waye Farmhouse
WAYE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326057
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Waye Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WAYE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326057
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Waye Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAYE 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:
- WAYE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Throwleigh
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 68926 89902
Details
THROWLEIGH SX 68 NE 3/224 Waye Farmhouse (formerly listed as Farm House at Way owned by Mr 22.2.67 Layman, Higher Way)
GV II
Farmhouse. C16 with C17 improvements; much rebuilt and rearranged in mid-late C19. Plastered granite stone rubble; granite stacks topped with plastered C19 or C20 brick; most of roof is thatch but one end is slate. Plan and development: It seems very likely the the original house had a 3-room-and- through-passage plan built down the hillslope and facing south. It may have been a Dartmoor longhouse. The hall at least was open to the roof and originally heated by an open hearth fire. The hall has an axial stack backing onto the site of the former passage. The inner room end is the uphill left end. It was rebuilt or rearranged in the mid-late C19 and contains an entrance hall with staircase and a parlour at the end with gable end stack. The passage service end was rebuilt at the same time as a kitchen with a gable end stack. At the right end there is an outshot. Dairy outshot to rear of the hall was rebuilt as the present kitchen circa 1970 and there is a C19 woodshed in front of the kitchen. House is 2 storeys. Exterior: Irregular 4-window front although the left 3-window section is symmetrical about the main doorway. There are 2 first floor C19 16-pane sashes but most of the windows are now C20 casements without glazing bars. The main doorway contains C20 part-glazed door behind a contemporary porch. Roof is gable-ended and the thatch section coincides with the symmetrical 3-window section. Interior: The early work is mostly confined to the hall section. The large C16 - early C17 granite ashlar fireplace has a hollow-chamfered surround. Probably early C17 ceiling and the crossbeam is soffit-chamfered with step stops. The Pear wall contains an alcove towards the upper end which probably represents the blocked doorway of the former newel stair. There is also a vertical timber in the wall which is probably the foot of an original cruck truss. The roof was raised in the C19 and therefore rebuilt but it does incorporte several smoke-blackened timbers and one appears to be an intact reused truss, now an A-frame with its cruck feet cut off. The rest of the features in the house are C19 although the jambs of the parlour fireplace are hollow-chamfered and therefore may indicate a C17 fireplace here.
Listing NGR: SX6892689902
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 94755
- 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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