Grendon Farmhouse
GRENDON FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326099
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Grendon Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- GRENDON FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326099
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Grendon Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- GRENDON 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:
- GRENDON FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Drewsteignton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 70985 92770
Details
SX 79 SW CHERITON BISHOP
9/6 Grendon Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. C16 with C17 improvements and C18 alterations. Plastered cob on rubble footings; cob, rubble and granite stacks topped with C19 brick; thatched roof. 3-room-and-through-passage plan with inner room at west end. Now 2 storeys throughout facing south. Massive granite hall fireplace backing onto passage and end stacks to service and inner rooms, the latter projecting from gable end. Roof hipped to right (service end). Irregular 5-window front of mostly C19 timber casements with glazing bars. First floor centre 2-light and centre-right 3-light casements probably C18 with leaded panes. Front door with C20 corrugated iron monopitch hood. Hall has late C16 and C17 features; oak plank-and-muntin screen with moulded head at upper end, oak, flat-arched doorframe in rear wall now to outshot but originally for stair turret to chamber over inner room, granite fireplace with heavy bead-moulded oak lintel and inserted brick side-oven, and rebated ovolo-moulded crossbeam with step stops. Service room rebuilt in C18 with rough chamfered crossbeam and end fireplace, now blocked. Roof inaccessible. Site first mentioned in C11 charter and deeds said to survive back to 1642.
Listing NGR: SX7098592770
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95109
- 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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