Westhill Farmhouse
WESTHILL FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326467
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Westhill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WESTHILL FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326467
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Westhill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WESTHILL 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:
- WESTHILL FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sampford Courtenay
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 61697 97774
Details
SAMPFORD COURTENAY SX 69 NW 8/164 Westhill Farmhouse II Farmhouse. Early C17 modernised in later C20. Rendered, mainly cob walls with some rubble. Asbestos slate roof gabled to left, hipped to right. 2 axial brick stacks. C20 projecting lateral stack to rear. Plan: unusual plan of 4 rooms in a row - the right-hand one for storage purposes with external access - with a cross entry (rather than separate passage) through the centre right-hand room; integral dairy behind the room to its left which was the hall. Hall stack backs onto entry. Room to its right with entry through it was probably the kitchen. Unheated inner room at left-hand end. The store room at the right-hand end had access only to the yard on the 1st floor. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front with lower C19 addition at left- hand end. Late C20 small-paned 3-light casements with small gable over 1st floor window to left of centre. Right-hand part of house has lower roof line. Leanto addition to rear at right of centre with glazed door. Interior: kitchen has granite framed fireplace, chamfered, with pyramid stops to jambs. Hall has similar fireplace. Adjoining it at the rear is a short section of plank and muntin screen. The rear partition to the dairy is of studs, grooved for flush plaster, with a cranked head door frame. There is a similar 1st floor partition above. Hall has framed ceiling of chamfered beams with bar and step stops at the intersections. Roof: one face-pegged clean jointed cruck survives over the hall. Source: Report by N W Alcock.
Listing NGR: SX6169797774
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 93047
- 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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