Church Gate Farmhouse and Outbuildings Immediately to North
CHURCH GATE FARMHOUSE AND OUTBUILDINGS IMMEDIATELY TO NORTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326517
- Date first listed:
- 29-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church Gate Farmhouse and Outbuildings Immediately to North
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH GATE FARMHOUSE AND OUTBUILDINGS IMMEDIATELY TO NORTH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326517
- Date first listed:
- 29-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church Gate Farmhouse and Outbuildings Immediately to North
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH GATE FARMHOUSE AND OUTBUILDINGS IMMEDIATELY TO NORTH
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:
- CHURCH GATE FARMHOUSE AND OUTBUILDINGS IMMEDIATELY TO NORTH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Northlew
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 50460 99170
Details
NORTHLEW NORTHLEW SX 59 NW 9/230 Church Gate Farmhouse and outbuildings immediately to North GV II Farmhouse. Circa early C16 with Cl? modifications. Plastered cob walls. Gable ended thatch roof. Brick stack at each end and one axial on a rubble base. Plan: 3-room-and-through-passage plan, lower end to the right. Hall stack backs onto passage but this was a Cl? insertion into an open hall origianlly heated by a central hearth, it is unclear whether the lower end and inner rooms were also open to the roof. At the same time that the hall stack was inserted it was also floored. At the rear of the higner end of the hall is the remains of a newel stair with what could be a garderobe beside it. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front of C19 small-paned 2 and 3-light casements to left of porch apart from the ground floor left-hand one which is C20. C20 3-light casements to right of porch. At the centre the wall projects slightly at the front of the hall. Hide C18 or C19 open- fronted porch to right of centre over which thatch roof extends, C20 plank door behind it. At rear to left of passage doorway is C18 square section wooden mullion window. Interior: hall fireplace has chamfered wooden lintel and granite jamb. Chamfered ceiling beam with indistinct stops. Passage has chamfered joists, some hollow chamfered, with convex stops. Roof: raised cruck over hall with mortices for collar and threaded purlins. Apex not visible but almost certainly smoke-blackened. Similar cruck in partition to inner room. One blackened timber survives over passage but probably re-used. Later roof structure over lower end. To include outbuilding immediately to north of house which is 1 storey with a corrugated iron roof and has a C17 chamfered wooden doorframe to the left. This is an unspoilt and very picturesque house which forms a very attractive and traditional group with the nearby church and cross.
Listing NGR: SX5046099170
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 93340
- 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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