Thorne Widger Farmhouse and Attached Wall and Barn
THORNE WIDGER FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND BARN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326542
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Thorne Widger Farmhouse and Attached Wall and Barn
- Statutory Address:
- THORNE WIDGER FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND BARN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326542
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Thorne Widger Farmhouse and Attached Wall and Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THORNE WIDGER FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND BARN
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:
- THORNE WIDGER FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND BARN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Buckland Brewer
- National Grid Reference:
- SS4202916422
Details
SS41NW
10/76
BUCKLAND BREWER
Thorne Widger Farmhouse and attached wall and barn
GV.
II
Farmhouse. Late C16/early C17 with mid C19 alterations and
extension. Roughcast over coursed slatestone rubble; gabled
slate roof; brick end stacks. 3-unit plan. 2 storeys; 4-window
range. Central porch has late C19 six-panelled (2 glazed) door.
Flat rendered arches over late C19 two to 3-light casements. Mid
C19 extensions of similar materials attached to rear left.
Interior: boxed beam and open fireplace with pot hooks in
ground-floor room on right; central room, former hall, has
blocked fireplace and cavetto and ovolo-moulded beams; C19 plank
and panelled doors; room to left and first floor not inspected
but likely to be of interest. Subsidiary features: outshut which
acts as porch abuts wall of coursed slatestone rubble to right,
which is attached to an early C19 barn of coursed slatestone
rubble with a gabled slate roof; central threshing floor has
plank double doors, with strap hinges flanked by projecting
cheeks with Welsh slate roof; entry is flanked by C20 outshut
with corrugated iron roof and a C19 outshut with pantile roof;
polygonal wheel house to left, partly rebuilt in breeze block.
Interior: A-frame trusses with pegged collars and notched apexes.
Listing NGR: SS4202916422
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91393
- 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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