Whorridge Farmhouse

WHORRIDGE FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1326156
Date first listed:
11-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:
Whorridge Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
WHORRIDGE FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1326156
Date first listed:
11-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:
Whorridge Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
WHORRIDGE 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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
WHORRIDGE FARMHOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Devon
District:
Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Bradninch
National Grid Reference:
ST 01869 05389

Details

BRADNINCH ST 00 NW 5/10 - Whorridge Farmhouse - II Farmhouse. C17 with extensive C19 remodelling and extension. Cob, stone plinth, plastered, under gabled-end slate roofs. A former 3-room, cross-passage plan house now forms the rear wing of an early C19 building. 2 storeys. Front: symmetrical 3-window range, dressed stone quoins and central door surround; 3-light casement windows to 1st floor, French windows below. Front of wing facing farmstead; 4 windows to 1st floor, 3 of 3-lights, 2 with 18- and 1 with 12-leaded panes, the latter now set in the gable end wall of the front range; 2-light C20 window also at this level. Ground floor with doorway into former passage; 4-light window to the left of this, 10-leaded panes per light; 2-light window to right of doorway. Rear stacks to main range (one probably the stack that formerly backed onto passage), and an end stack to lower-end of wing, all with brick shafts. Stair turret to rear of former hall, in angle of L-shaped plan; 2 storey C20 extension to rear of front range. Interior: blocked fireplace to lower end; boxed beams; roof entirely C19.

Listing NGR: ST0186905389

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Legacy System number:
95202
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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