Leonard Farmhouse
LEONARD FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1326161
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Leonard Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LEONARD FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1326161
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Leonard Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEONARD 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:
- LEONARD FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Halberton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 00234 09550
Details
HALBERTON ST 00 NW 5/159 Leonard Farmhouse - - II* Farmhouse. C15, with C16 and later alterations. Cob, stone plinth, roughcast, under gabled-end slate roof. Formerly a 3-room, through-passage plan, with the higher end to the left-hand side of the passage; the medieval smoke-blackened roof survives under the present replacement, and the roll mouldings on the beams to the main ground floor rooms suggests a comparatively early floor insertion. The higher end extension (used for storage) looks C18. End stacks (that to the left now axial), and a prominent front lateral stack with 3 pairs of set-offs, heats hall. All with brick shafts. 2-storeys. Front: 4-window range, 2 and 3-light barred casement window to both floors; 1 to each ground floor room; one 3-light window to later extension (the joint in the fabric between this and the main house is clearly visible); wide planked door to extension; door to passage under slate-roofed porch that leans aganst front stack. C20 windows and buttresses to right-hand extension; rear outshut under catslide roof with two 4-light openings; left hand end with one 3-light casement window, 18 leaded panes per light. Interior: C16 planked door to rear opposing entrance to passage; lower end room with 1 roughly chamfered cross beam. Hall: grid of intersecting beams each with 7 roll mouldings and 1 convex moulding, forming 4 ceiling squares, the lower end beam cut back to receive later stairs; chamfered, slightly cranked lintel is all that survives of the big front fireplace, everything else rebuilt. Parlour: grid of intersecting beams, each wih 5 roll mouldings and 1 concave moulding, forming 4 ceiling squares, the rear higher-end square with deep chamfer only suggesting a corridor or porch projecting into the room. Circa 1900 end fireplace with polished limestone and tiling. Roof: 4 bays, the hall occupying 2; 3 jointed crucks, with yoke pegged, diagonal ridge piece, and 2 pairs of trenched purlins; the central truss to the hall has a chamfered arch-brace; the lower end truss is closed, and the lower end only slightly sooted; hall heavily smoke-blackened; parlour (again with a closed truss) is very lightly sooted.
Listing NGR: ST0023409550
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95346
- 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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