LOWER HILL FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1326227
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: LOWER HILL FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: LOWER HILL FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1326227
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: LOWER HILL FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: LOWER HILL FARMHOUSE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: LOWER HILL FARMHOUSE

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

County:: Devon
District:: West Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Lamerton
National Grid Reference:: SX4518776639

Details

LAMERTON SX 47 NE 3/30 - Lower Hill Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. Mid-late C17 with C19 and C20 alterations. Mixed slatestone rubble, partly rendered, grouted rag slate roof, with axial ridge and gable end stacks, asbestos slate roof to former barn attached to left, quartz stone at foot of walls. 3 room and through passage plan, passage closed by insertion of stair, with axial hall stack backing on to passage, gable end stack heating inner room, possibly originally unheated lower end, with stack inserted in lower end in C19. Hall has an integral 2-storey gabled projecting bay to front and stair tower to rear. Passage appears to have been widened, with small single storey C20 extension to rear. Probably early C19 barn extension at lower end. 2 storeys and 4 windows, all C20 casements; upper end to right of passage has 3 bays, centre bay broken forward, gabled, with ground floor plate glass window and first floor 3-light 6-pane casement, both with slate dripmould; end bay to right has ground floor plate glass window with granite lintel and first floor 2-light 6-pane casement; bay to left has ground floor 2-light 6-pane casement with granite lintel and ventilation breather above formed from one block of stone, blocked. To left, C20 gabled porch on concrete piers, half-glazed door in plain frame to passage, 2-light casement above, 6 panes to left and 2 to right, to left a C20 French window and 2- light 6-pane casement under eaves. Single storey barn attached to left, now used as living accommodation, wall broken forward slightly, plain door. Right return has glazed C20 door to right; left return has rendered gable end, 2-light 6-pane casement with timber lintel, roof hipped. Rear has small single light at ground floor left, stair tower of same build as house, main roof extended over, with C20 single light, centre has single storey C20 bathroom addition possibly concealing site of original rear passage door, barn has ragged joint to house and chamfered granite lintel reset over 2-light 6-pane casement, C20 stack on rear slope of roof. Interior wide central passage has rebuilt winder stair to rear, rear of oven extending into passage to right, step down to left and up to right; hall to right of passage has fireplace with flat granite lintel raised in C20 with cloam oven, recess upper right, possibly smoking chamber; plank and battened door with strap hinges to end room to right, stone floor partially remaining. Lower room to left of passage has C19 fireplace with cambered hood, smoking chamber to left. Battered walls at first floor, roof mainly rebuilt, one row of purlins along rear slope, one truss has principal rafters, collar and queen posts.

Listing NGR: SX4518776639

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Legacy System number:: 93926
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.